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Subject[PATCH 2/3] KVM: VMX: avoid retpoline call for control register caused exits
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Complement commit 4289d2728664 ("KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate
retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers") and avoid a retpoline call for
control register accesses as well.

This speeds up guests that make heavy use of it, like grsecurity
kernels toggling CR0.WP to implement kernel W^X.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
---
SVM may gain from a similar change as well, however, I've no AMD box to
test this on.

arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index c788aa382611..c8198c8a9b55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6538,6 +6538,8 @@ static int __vmx_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, fastpath_t exit_fastpath)
return handle_external_interrupt(vcpu);
else if (exit_reason.basic == EXIT_REASON_HLT)
return kvm_emulate_halt(vcpu);
+ else if (exit_reason.basic == EXIT_REASON_CR_ACCESS)
+ return handle_cr(vcpu);
else if (exit_reason.basic == EXIT_REASON_EPT_MISCONFIG)
return handle_ept_misconfig(vcpu);
#endif
--
2.39.0
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