linux/arch/x86/kvm
Paolo Bonzini c77fb5fe6f KVM: x86: Allow the guest to run with dirty debug registers
When not running in guest-debug mode, the guest controls the debug
registers and having to take an exit for each DR access is a waste
of time.  If the guest gets into a state where each context switch
causes DR to be saved and restored, this can take away as much as 40%
of the execution time from the guest.

After this patch, VMX- and SVM-specific code can set a flag in
switch_db_regs, telling vcpu_enter_guest that on the next exit the debug
registers might be dirty and need to be reloaded (syncing will be taken
care of by a new callback in kvm_x86_ops).  This flag can be set on the
first access to a debug registers, so that multiple accesses to the
debug registers only cause one vmexit.

Note that since the guest will be able to read debug registers and
enable breakpoints in DR7, we need to ensure that they are synchronized
on entry to the guest---including DR6 that was not synced before.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2014-03-11 10:46:02 +01:00
..
cpuid.c KVM: x86: Enable Intel MPX for guest 2014-02-25 20:17:12 +01:00
cpuid.h KVM: x86: Validate guest writes to MSR_IA32_APICBASE 2014-01-27 14:39:44 +01:00
emulate.c KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit 2013-11-05 09:11:30 +02:00
i8254.c KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency 2014-01-15 12:43:54 +01:00
i8254.h KVM: fold kvm_pit_timer into kvm_kpit_state 2012-08-01 00:21:07 -03:00
i8259.c KVM: inject ExtINT interrupt before APIC interrupts 2012-12-13 23:05:21 -02:00
irq.c x86, apicv: add virtual interrupt delivery support 2013-01-29 10:48:19 +02:00
irq.h KVM: switch to symbolic name for irq_states size 2012-07-20 16:12:16 -03:00
Kconfig kvm: make KVM_MMU_AUDIT help text more readable 2014-01-20 12:59:26 +01:00
kvm_cache_regs.h KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory 2011-09-25 19:18:01 +03:00
lapic.c First round of KVM updates for 3.14; PPC parts will come next week. 2014-01-22 21:40:43 -08:00
lapic.h KVM: x86: Validate guest writes to MSR_IA32_APICBASE 2014-01-27 14:39:44 +01:00
Makefile kvm: Add VFIO device 2013-10-30 19:02:03 +01:00
mmu_audit.c kvm: mmu: delay mmu audit activation 2013-11-20 11:12:56 +02:00
mmu.c Merge tag 'kvm-for-3.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into kvm-next 2014-03-04 15:58:00 +01:00
mmu.h KVM: mmu: change useless int return types to void 2013-10-03 15:44:02 +03:00
mmutrace.h KVM: MMU: add tracepoint for check_mmio_spte 2013-06-27 14:20:37 +03:00
paging_tmpl.h KVM: Simplify kvm->tlbs_dirty handling 2014-02-18 10:07:26 +01:00
pmu.c perf, kvm: Support the in_tx/in_tx_cp modifiers in KVM arch perfmon emulation v5 2013-07-19 18:24:45 +02:00
svm.c KVM: x86: Remove return code from enable_irq/nmi_window 2014-03-11 08:41:47 +01:00
trace.h kvm: Add a tracepoint write_tsc_offset 2013-06-27 14:20:51 +03:00
tss.h
vmx.c KVM: vmx: we do rely on loading DR7 on entry 2014-03-11 10:46:01 +01:00
x86.c KVM: x86: Allow the guest to run with dirty debug registers 2014-03-11 10:46:02 +01:00
x86.h KVM: x86: Enable Intel MPX for guest 2014-02-25 20:17:12 +01:00