KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:36:17 +0000 (11:36 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:18:01 +0000 (19:18 +0300)
commite4e517b4be019787ada4cbbce2f04570c21b0cbd
tree130dcb08868586e46ad6ad488dd4ba0e219f90c2
parentcf3ace79c065d65e9636f719a9df1382725410e3
KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory

Architecturally, PDPTEs are cached in the PDPTRs when CR3 is reloaded.
On SVM, it is not possible to implement this, but on VMX this is possible
and was indeed implemented until nested SVM changed this to unconditionally
read PDPTEs dynamically.  This has noticable impact when running PAE guests.

Fix by changing the MMU to read PDPTRs from the cache, falling back to
reading from memory for the nested MMU.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c