[PATCH 0/6] KVM TSS cleanups and speedups

[Andy Lutomirski]

The first four patches here are intended to be straightforward
cleanups and to make a better base for Thomas' GDT series.  They may
be a slight speedup, too, because they remove an STR instruction
from the VMX entry path.

The last two patches are a reasonably large speedup but need careful
review.

FWIW, I can see lots of additional easy-ish speedups here.  For example:

 - The GDT reload on VM exit isn't really needed at all.  Instead let's
   just change the kernel limit to 0xFFFF.  Doing that naively would
   waste memory, but doing it carefully on top of Thomas' series would
   be straightforward and almost free.

 - RDMSR from MSR_GS_BASE is totally pointless.

 - Once I or someone finishes the FSGSBASE series, we get a big speedup
   there.

 - The LDT reload code should be split up and optimized better, I think.

Andy Lutomirski (6):
  x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
  x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
  x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
  x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
  x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
  x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit

 arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h      | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 12 +++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c         |  5 ++++
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c        | 10 +++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c               | 63 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

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