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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: use VMLOAD for PV context switch



Having noticed that VMLOAD alone is about as fast as a single of the
involved WRMSRs, I thought it might be a reasonable idea to also use it
for PV. Measurements, however, have shown that an actual improvement can
be achieved only with an early prefetch of the VMCB (thanks to Andrew
for suggesting to try this), which I have to admit I can't really
explain. This way on my Fam15 box context switch takes over 100 clocks
less on average (the measured values are heavily varying in all cases,
though).

This is intentionally not using a new hvm_funcs hook: For one, this is
all about PV, and something similar can hardly be done for VMX.
Furthermore the indirect to direct call patching that is meant to be
applied to most hvm_funcs hooks would be ugly to make work with
functions having more than 6 parameters.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
Besides the mentioned oddity with measured performance, I've also
noticed a significant difference (of at least 150 clocks) between
measuring immediately around the calls to svm_load_segs() and measuring
immediately inside the function.

--- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 #include <asm/hvm/hvm.h>
 #include <asm/hvm/nestedhvm.h>
 #include <asm/hvm/support.h>
+#include <asm/hvm/svm/svm.h>
 #include <asm/hvm/viridian.h>
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
@@ -1274,11 +1275,35 @@ static void load_segments(struct vcpu *n
     struct cpu_user_regs *uregs = &n->arch.user_regs;
     int all_segs_okay = 1;
     unsigned int dirty_segment_mask, cpu = smp_processor_id();
+    bool fs_gs_done = false;
 
     /* Load and clear the dirty segment mask. */
     dirty_segment_mask = per_cpu(dirty_segment_mask, cpu);
     per_cpu(dirty_segment_mask, cpu) = 0;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HVM
+    if ( !is_pv_32bit_vcpu(n) && !cpu_has_fsgsbase && cpu_has_svm &&
+         !((uregs->fs | uregs->gs) & ~3) &&
+         /*
+          * The remaining part is just for optimization: If only shadow GS
+          * needs loading, there's nothing to be gained here.
+          */
+         (n->arch.pv_vcpu.fs_base | n->arch.pv_vcpu.gs_base_user) )
+    {
+        fs_gs_done = n->arch.flags & TF_kernel_mode
+            ? svm_load_segs(n->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents, LDT_VIRT_START(n),
+                            uregs->fs, n->arch.pv_vcpu.fs_base,
+                            uregs->gs, n->arch.pv_vcpu.gs_base_kernel,
+                            n->arch.pv_vcpu.gs_base_user)
+            : svm_load_segs(n->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents, LDT_VIRT_START(n),
+                            uregs->fs, n->arch.pv_vcpu.fs_base,
+                            uregs->gs, n->arch.pv_vcpu.gs_base_user,
+                            n->arch.pv_vcpu.gs_base_kernel);
+    }
+#endif
+    if ( !fs_gs_done )
+        load_LDT(n);
+
     /* Either selector != 0 ==> reload. */
     if ( unlikely((dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_DS) | uregs->ds) )
     {
@@ -1294,7 +1319,7 @@ static void load_segments(struct vcpu *n
     }
 
     /* Either selector != 0 ==> reload. */
-    if ( unlikely((dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_FS) | uregs->fs) )
+    if ( unlikely((dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_FS) | uregs->fs) && !fs_gs_done )
     {
         all_segs_okay &= loadsegment(fs, uregs->fs);
         /* non-nul selector updates fs_base */
@@ -1303,7 +1328,7 @@ static void load_segments(struct vcpu *n
     }
 
     /* Either selector != 0 ==> reload. */
-    if ( unlikely((dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_GS) | uregs->gs) )
+    if ( unlikely((dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_GS) | uregs->gs) && !fs_gs_done  
)
     {
         all_segs_okay &= loadsegment(gs, uregs->gs);
         /* non-nul selector updates gs_base_user */
@@ -1311,7 +1336,7 @@ static void load_segments(struct vcpu *n
             dirty_segment_mask &= ~DIRTY_GS_BASE;
     }
 
-    if ( !is_pv_32bit_vcpu(n) )
+    if ( !fs_gs_done && !is_pv_32bit_vcpu(n) )
     {
         /* This can only be non-zero if selector is NULL. */
         if ( n->arch.pv_vcpu.fs_base | (dirty_segment_mask & DIRTY_FS_BASE) )
@@ -1646,6 +1671,12 @@ static void __context_switch(void)
 
     write_ptbase(n);
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PV) && defined(CONFIG_HVM)
+    if ( is_pv_domain(nd) && !is_pv_32bit_domain(nd) && !is_idle_domain(nd) &&
+         !cpu_has_fsgsbase && cpu_has_svm )
+        svm_load_segs(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+#endif
+
     if ( need_full_gdt(nd) &&
          ((p->vcpu_id != n->vcpu_id) || !need_full_gdt(pd)) )
     {
@@ -1707,10 +1738,7 @@ void context_switch(struct vcpu *prev, s
         local_irq_enable();
 
         if ( is_pv_domain(nextd) )
-        {
-            load_LDT(next);
             load_segments(next);
-        }
 
         ctxt_switch_levelling(next);
 
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ static struct hvm_function_table svm_fun
  */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(paddr_t, hsa);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(paddr_t, host_vmcb);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PV
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcb_struct *, host_vmcb_va);
+#endif
 
 static bool_t amd_erratum383_found __read_mostly;
 
@@ -1574,6 +1577,14 @@ static void svm_cpu_dead(unsigned int cp
         *this_hsa = 0;
     }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PV
+    if ( per_cpu(host_vmcb_va, cpu) )
+    {
+        unmap_domain_page_global(per_cpu(host_vmcb_va, cpu));
+        per_cpu(host_vmcb_va, cpu) = NULL;
+    }
+#endif
+
     if ( *this_vmcb )
     {
         free_domheap_page(maddr_to_page(*this_vmcb));
@@ -1608,6 +1619,11 @@ static int svm_cpu_up_prepare(unsigned i
         if ( !pg )
             goto err;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PV
+        if ( !cpu_has_fsgsbase )
+            per_cpu(host_vmcb_va, cpu) = __map_domain_page_global(pg);
+#endif
+
         clear_domain_page(page_to_mfn(pg));
         *this_vmcb = page_to_maddr(pg);
     }
@@ -1654,6 +1670,60 @@ static int svm_handle_osvw(struct vcpu *
     return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PV
+bool svm_load_segs(unsigned int ldt_ents, unsigned long ldt_base,
+                   unsigned int fs_sel, unsigned long fs_base,
+                   unsigned int gs_sel, unsigned long gs_base,
+                   unsigned long gs_shadow)
+{
+    unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+    struct vmcb_struct *vmcb = per_cpu(host_vmcb_va, cpu);
+
+    if ( unlikely(!vmcb) )
+        return false;
+
+    if ( !ldt_base )
+    {
+        asm volatile ( "prefetch %0" :: "m" (vmcb->ldtr) );
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    if ( likely(!ldt_ents) )
+        memset(&vmcb->ldtr, 0, sizeof(vmcb->ldtr));
+    else
+    {
+        /* Keep GDT in sync. */
+        struct desc_struct *desc = this_cpu(gdt_table) + LDT_ENTRY -
+                                   FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_ENTRY;
+
+        _set_tssldt_desc(desc, ldt_base, ldt_ents * 8 - 1, SYS_DESC_ldt);
+
+        vmcb->ldtr.sel = LDT_ENTRY << 3;
+        vmcb->ldtr.attr = SYS_DESC_ldt | (_SEGMENT_P >> 8);
+        vmcb->ldtr.limit = ldt_ents * 8 - 1;
+        vmcb->ldtr.base = ldt_base;
+    }
+
+    ASSERT(!(fs_sel & ~3));
+    vmcb->fs.sel = fs_sel;
+    vmcb->fs.attr = 0;
+    vmcb->fs.limit = 0;
+    vmcb->fs.base = fs_base;
+
+    ASSERT(!(gs_sel & ~3));
+    vmcb->gs.sel = gs_sel;
+    vmcb->gs.attr = 0;
+    vmcb->gs.limit = 0;
+    vmcb->gs.base = gs_base;
+
+    vmcb->kerngsbase = gs_shadow;
+
+    svm_vmload_pa(per_cpu(host_vmcb, cpu));
+
+    return true;
+}
+#endif
+
 static int _svm_cpu_up(bool bsp)
 {
     uint64_t msr_content;
@@ -1706,6 +1776,8 @@ static int _svm_cpu_up(bool bsp)
     /* Initialize OSVW bits to be used by guests */
     svm_host_osvw_init();
 
+    svm_vmsave_pa(per_cpu(host_vmcb, cpu));
+
     return 0;
 }
 
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ unsigned long *svm_msrbit(unsigned long
 void __update_guest_eip(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, unsigned int inst_len);
 void svm_update_guest_cr(struct vcpu *, unsigned int cr, unsigned int flags);
 
+/* PV context switch helper */
+bool svm_load_segs(unsigned int ldt_ents, unsigned long ldt_base,
+                   unsigned int fs_sel, unsigned long fs_base,
+                   unsigned int gs_sel, unsigned long gs_base,
+                   unsigned long gs_shadow);
+
 extern u32 svm_feature_flags;
 
 #define SVM_FEATURE_NPT            0 /* Nested page table support */




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