From 74c504a6d70ab29b2c28bee62f5f39e3dd847ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:00:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers It's enough to check the value and issue the direct call. After this commit is applied, here the most common retpolines executed under a high resolution timer workload in the guest on a VMX host: [..] @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 267 @[]: 2256 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 __kvm_wait_lapic_expire+284 vmx_vcpu_run.part.97+1091 vcpu_enter_guest+377 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 2390 @[]: 33410 @total: 315707 Note the highest hit above is __delay so probably not worth optimizing even if it would be more frequent than 2k hits per sec. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c index fcef678c3423..937363b803c1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c @@ -3323,8 +3323,19 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event) return 0; } +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE +static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *core_guest_get_msrs(int *nr); +static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr); +#endif + struct perf_guest_switch_msr *perf_guest_get_msrs(int *nr) { +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE + if (x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs == intel_guest_get_msrs) + return intel_guest_get_msrs(nr); + else if (x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs == core_guest_get_msrs) + return core_guest_get_msrs(nr); +#endif if (x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs) return x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs(nr); *nr = 0;