Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: MMU: audit: replace mmu audit tracepoint withjump-lable

From: Jason Baron
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 17:33:08 EST


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:41:00PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> +static void kvm_mmu_audit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int point)
> {
> static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
>
> - if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit_state))
> - return;
> + if (static_branch((&mmu_audit_key))) {
> + if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit_state))
> + return;
>
> - vcpu->kvm->arch.audit_point = point;
> - audit_all_active_sps(vcpu->kvm);
> - audit_vcpu_spte(vcpu);
> + vcpu->kvm->arch.audit_point = point;
> + audit_all_active_sps(vcpu->kvm);
> + audit_vcpu_spte(vcpu);
> + }
> }

hmmm..this always going to do a call to 'kvm_mmu_audit' and then return.
I think you want to avoid the function call altogether. You could do
something like:

#define kvm_mmu_audit()
if (static_branch((&mmu_audit_key))) {
__kvm_mmu_audit();
}

and s/kvm_mmu_audit/__kvm_mmu_audit

That should give you a single nop for the case where kvm_mmu_audit is
disabled instead of a function call.

Thanks,

-Jason
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