[PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: avoid unnecessary guest register mangling on MMIO read
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Nov 6 04:11:45 PST 2014
Currently we mangle the endianness of the guest's register even on an
MMIO _read_, where it is completely useless, because we will not use
the value of that register.
Rework the io_mem_abort() function to clearly separate between reads
and writes and only do the endianness mangling on MMIO writes.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Hi,
I found this while investigating bi-endianness for MMIO. Not sure if
it's really useful, but I found it more clearer this way.
Cheers,
Andre.
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
index 4cb5a93..5d3bfc0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
@@ -187,15 +187,18 @@ int io_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
}
rt = vcpu->arch.mmio_decode.rt;
- data = vcpu_data_guest_to_host(vcpu, *vcpu_reg(vcpu, rt), mmio.len);
- trace_kvm_mmio((mmio.is_write) ? KVM_TRACE_MMIO_WRITE :
- KVM_TRACE_MMIO_READ_UNSATISFIED,
- mmio.len, fault_ipa,
- (mmio.is_write) ? data : 0);
+ if (mmio.is_write) {
+ data = vcpu_data_guest_to_host(vcpu, *vcpu_reg(vcpu, rt),
+ mmio.len);
- if (mmio.is_write)
+ trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_WRITE, mmio.len,
+ fault_ipa, data);
mmio_write_buf(mmio.data, mmio.len, data);
+ } else {
+ trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_READ_UNSATISFIED, mmio.len,
+ fault_ipa, 0);
+ }
if (vgic_handle_mmio(vcpu, run, &mmio))
return 1;
--
1.7.9.5
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