[PATCH 06/37] KVM: arm/arm64: Only load/put VCPU state for KVM_RUN

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Oct 12 03:41:10 PDT 2017


We only want to do things like invalidating TLBs or load timer state
onto the physical CPU if we really intend to run the VCPU, not if we are
simply retrieving some in-kernel value from userspace, for example.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
index 6e9513e..d495453 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 {
 	int *last_ran;
 
+	if (vcpu->ioctl != KVM_RUN)
+		return;
+
 	last_ran = this_cpu_ptr(vcpu->kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran);
 
 	/*
@@ -359,6 +362,9 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 
 void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
+	if (vcpu->ioctl != KVM_RUN)
+		return;
+
 	kvm_timer_vcpu_put(vcpu);
 	kvm_vgic_put(vcpu);
 
-- 
2.9.0




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