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Many guest fields are rarely read (or written) by VMMs, i.e. likely aren't accessed between runs of a nested VMCS. Delay pulling rarely accessed guest fields from vmcs02 until they are VMREAD or until vmcs12 is dirtied. The latter case is necessary because nested VM-Entry will consume all manner of fields when vmcs12 is dirty, e.g. for consistency checks. Note, an alternative to synchronizing all guest fields on VMREAD would be to read *only* the field being accessed, but switching VMCS pointers is expensive and odds are good if one guest field is being accessed then others will soon follow, or that vmcs12 will be dirtied due to a VMWRITE (see above). And the full synchronization results in slightly cleaner code. Note, although GUEST_PDPTRs are relevant only for a 32-bit PAE guest, they are accessed quite frequently for said guests, and a separate patch is in flight to optimize away GUEST_PDTPR synchronziation for non-PAE guests. Skipping rarely accessed guest fields reduces the latency of a nested VM-Exit by ~200 cycles. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.