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KVM: VMX: Handle KVM-induced preemption timer exits in fastpath for L2
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Eat VMX treemption timer exits in the fastpath regardless of whether L1 or
L2 is active.  The VM-Exit is 100% KVM-induced, i.e. there is nothing
directly related to the exit that KVM needs to do on behalf of the guest,
thus there is no reason to wait until the slow path to do nothing.

Opportunistically add comments explaining why preemption timer exits for
emulating the guest's APIC timer need to go down the slow path.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110012705.506918-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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sean-jc committed Feb 23, 2024
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22 changes: 20 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -6007,13 +6007,26 @@ static fastpath_t handle_fastpath_preemption_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (vmx->req_immediate_exit)
return EXIT_FASTPATH_EXIT_HANDLED;

/*
* If L2 is active, go down the slow path as emulating the guest timer
* expiration likely requires synthesizing a nested VM-Exit.
*/
if (is_guest_mode(vcpu))
return EXIT_FASTPATH_NONE;

kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer(vcpu);
return EXIT_FASTPATH_REENTER_GUEST;
}

static int handle_preemption_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
handle_fastpath_preemption_timer(vcpu);
/*
* This non-fastpath handler is reached if and only if the preemption
* timer was being used to emulate a guest timer while L2 is active.
* All other scenarios are supposed to be handled in the fastpath.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_guest_mode(vcpu));
kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer(vcpu);
return 1;
}

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static fastpath_t vmx_exit_handlers_fastpath(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
if (is_guest_mode(vcpu))
/*
* If L2 is active, some VMX preemption timer exits can be handled in
* the fastpath even, all other exits must use the slow path.
*/
if (is_guest_mode(vcpu) &&
to_vmx(vcpu)->exit_reason.basic != EXIT_REASON_PREEMPTION_TIMER)
return EXIT_FASTPATH_NONE;

switch (to_vmx(vcpu)->exit_reason.basic) {
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