linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Sean Christopherson 831a301129 KVM: VMX: Modify only RSP when creating a placeholder for guest's RCX
In the vCPU-run asm blob, the guest's RCX is temporarily saved onto the
stack after VM-Exit as the exit flow must first load a register with a
pointer to the vCPU's save area in order to save the guest's registers.
RCX is arbitrarily designated as the scratch register.

Since the stack usage is to (1)save host, (2)save guest, (3)load host
and (4)load guest, the code can't conform to the stack's natural FIFO
semantics, i.e. it can't simply do PUSH/POP.  Regardless of whether it
is done for the host's value or guest's value, at some point the code
needs to access the stack using a non-traditional method, e.g. MOV
instead of POP.  vCPU-run opts to create a placeholder on the stack for
guest's RCX (by adjusting RSP) and saves RCX to its place immediately
after VM-Exit (via MOV).

In other words, the purpose of the first 'PUSH RCX' at the start of
the vCPU-run asm blob  is to adjust RSP down, i.e. there's no need to
actually access memory.  Use 'SUB $wordsize, RSP' instead of 'PUSH RCX'
to make it more obvious that the intent is simply to create a gap on
the stack for the guest's RCX.

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-12 13:12:14 +01:00
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arc ARCv2: lib: memeset: fix doing prefetchw outside of buffer 2019-01-17 16:24:39 -08:00
arm xen: fixes for 5.0-rc6 2019-02-09 09:44:08 -08:00
arm64 ARM: SoC fixes for linux-5.0 2019-02-08 16:23:41 -08:00
c6x arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
csky
h8300 arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
hexagon arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
ia64 ia64: remove redundant 'export AWK' 2019-01-16 23:31:18 +09:00
m68k for-linus-20190209 2019-02-09 10:26:09 -08:00
microblaze arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
mips mips: cm: reprime error cause 2019-02-07 11:55:24 -08:00
nds32 nds32: remove unneeded code in arch/nds32/Makefile 2019-01-17 23:42:37 +09:00
nios2
openrisc arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
parisc
powerpc powerpc fixes for 5.0 #4 2019-02-08 16:04:12 -08:00
riscv riscv: Adjust mmap base address at a third of task size 2019-01-25 10:50:53 -08:00
s390
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sparc
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unicore32 arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
x86 KVM: VMX: Modify only RSP when creating a placeholder for guest's RCX 2019-02-12 13:12:14 +01:00
xtensa xtensa: SMP: limit number of possible CPUs by NR_CPUS 2019-01-27 10:04:30 -08:00
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