mainlining shenanigans
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 <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.