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

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