On 18/07/19 16:12, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 03:18:50PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 18/07/19 15:16, Sean Christopherson wrote: >>>> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >>>> >>>> This has a side effect of adding a jump in a generally hot path, but >>>> let's hope that the speculation gods for once help us. >>> Any reason not to take the same approach as vmx_vmenter() and ud2 directly >>> from fixup? I've never found kvm_spurious_fault() to be all that helpful, >>> IMO it's a win win. :-) >> >> Honestly I've never seen a backtrace from here but I would rather not >> regret this when a customer encounters it... > > In theory, changing the "call kvm_spurious_fault" to ud2 should be fine. > It should be tested, of course. > > I would defer to Sean to make the patch on top of mine :-) >
Yes, this can be done easily on top. Paolo