[PATCH 5/9] KVM: x86: do not set st->preempted when going back to user space

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 54aa83c90198e68eee8b0850c749bc70efb548da upstream.

Similar to the Xen path, only change the vCPU's reported state if the vCPU
was actually preempted.  The reason for KVM's behavior is that for example
optimistic spinning might not be a good idea if the guest is doing repeated
exits to userspace; however, it is confusing and unlikely to make a difference,
because well-tuned guests will hardly ever exit KVM_RUN in the first place.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[risbhat@xxxxxxxxxx: Don't check for xen msr as support is not available
and skip the SEV-ES condition]
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar <risbhat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Allen Pais <apais@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 4e77233880b7..80231f62e129 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4124,16 +4124,18 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	int idx;
 
-	if (vcpu->preempted)
+	if (vcpu->preempted) {
 		vcpu->arch.preempted_in_kernel = !kvm_x86_ops.get_cpl(vcpu);
 
-	/*
-	 * kvm_memslots() will be called by
-	 * kvm_write_guest_offset_cached() so take the srcu lock.
-	 */
-	idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
-	kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(vcpu);
-	srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
+		/*
+		 * Take the srcu lock as memslots will be accessed to check the gfn
+		 * cache generation against the memslots generation.
+		 */
+		idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
+		kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(vcpu);
+		srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
+	}
+
 	kvm_x86_ops.vcpu_put(vcpu);
 	vcpu->arch.last_host_tsc = rdtsc();
 	/*
-- 
2.39.2




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