KVM: add spinlock optimization framework

If a vcpu exits due to request a user mode spinlock, then
the spinlock-holder may be preempted in user mode or kernel mode.
(Note that not all architectures trap spin loops in user mode,
only AMD x86 and ARM/ARM64 currently do).

But if a vcpu exits in kernel mode, then the holder must be
preempted in kernel mode, so we should choose a vcpu in kernel mode
as a more likely candidate for the lock holder.

This introduces kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel() to decide whether the
vcpu is in kernel-mode when it's preempted.  kvm_vcpu_on_spin's
new argument says the same of the spinning VCPU.

Signed-off-by: Longpeng(Mike) <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Longpeng(Mike)
2017-08-08 12:05:32 +08:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 1b4d56b86a
commit 199b5763d3
13 changed files with 36 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return !!(vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
}
bool kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return false;
}
int kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return 1;