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authorLiu Yu-B13201 <Yu.Liu@freescale.com>2011-12-01 21:22:53 +0100
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-03-05 13:52:34 +0100
commitbefdc0a65afd17181392eff3d43c63407f266a9f (patch)
tree1adf9e1cbef1f5d555334de5ce2a9b71ae8dd490 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parentKVM: PPC: e500: use hardware hint when loading TLB0 entries (diff)
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KVM: PPC: Avoid patching paravirt template code
Currently we patch the whole code include paravirt template code. This isn't safe for scratch area and has impact to performance. Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c11
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S6
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
index 04d4b5aa6dca..62bdf2389669 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -665,6 +665,9 @@ static void kvm_check_ins(u32 *inst, u32 features)
}
}
+extern u32 kvm_template_start[];
+extern u32 kvm_template_end[];
+
static void kvm_use_magic_page(void)
{
u32 *p;
@@ -692,8 +695,14 @@ static void kvm_use_magic_page(void)
*/
local_irq_disable();
- for (p = start; p < end; p++)
+ for (p = start; p < end; p++) {
+ /* Avoid patching the template code */
+ if (p >= kvm_template_start && p < kvm_template_end) {
+ p = kvm_template_end - 1;
+ continue;
+ }
kvm_check_ins(p, features);
+ }
local_irq_enable();
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
index 801058dd74db..e291cf3cf954 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ kvm_hypercall_start:
shared->critical == r1 and r2 is always != r1 */ \
STL64(r2, KVM_MAGIC_PAGE + KVM_MAGIC_CRITICAL, 0);
+.global kvm_template_start
+kvm_template_start:
+
.global kvm_emulate_mtmsrd
kvm_emulate_mtmsrd:
@@ -350,3 +353,6 @@ kvm_emulate_mtsrin_orig_ins_offs:
.global kvm_emulate_mtsrin_len
kvm_emulate_mtsrin_len:
.long (kvm_emulate_mtsrin_end - kvm_emulate_mtsrin) / 4
+
+.global kvm_template_end
+kvm_template_end: