On 08/30/2012 02:30 AM, Mathias Krause wrote:
> As the the compiler ensures that the memory operand is always aligned
> to a 16 byte memory location,
I'm not sure it does. Is V4SI aligned? Do we use alignof() to
propagate the alignment to the vcpu allocation code?
> use the aligned variant of MOVDQ for
> read_sse_reg() and write_sse_reg().
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index 1451cff..5a0fee1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -909,23 +909,23 @@ static void read_sse_reg(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
> sse128_t *data, int reg)
> {
> ctxt->ops->get_fpu(ctxt);
> switch (reg) {
> - case 0: asm("movdqu %%xmm0, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 1: asm("movdqu %%xmm1, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 2: asm("movdqu %%xmm2, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 3: asm("movdqu %%xmm3, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 4: asm("movdqu %%xmm4, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 5: asm("movdqu %%xmm5, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 6: asm("movdqu %%xmm6, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 7: asm("movdqu %%xmm7, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 0: asm("movdqa %%xmm0, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 1: asm("movdqa %%xmm1, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 2: asm("movdqa %%xmm2, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 3: asm("movdqa %%xmm3, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 4: asm("movdqa %%xmm4, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 5: asm("movdqa %%xmm5, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 6: asm("movdqa %%xmm6, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 7: asm("movdqa %%xmm7, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> - case 8: asm("movdqu %%xmm8, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 9: asm("movdqu %%xmm9, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 10: asm("movdqu %%xmm10, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 11: asm("movdqu %%xmm11, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 12: asm("movdqu %%xmm12, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 13: asm("movdqu %%xmm13, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 14: asm("movdqu %%xmm14, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> - case 15: asm("movdqu %%xmm15, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 8: asm("movdqa %%xmm8, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 9: asm("movdqa %%xmm9, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 10: asm("movdqa %%xmm10, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 11: asm("movdqa %%xmm11, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 12: asm("movdqa %%xmm12, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 13: asm("movdqa %%xmm13, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 14: asm("movdqa %%xmm14, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> + case 15: asm("movdqa %%xmm15, %0" : "=m"(*data)); break;
> #endif
> default: BUG();
The vmexit costs dominates any win here by several orders of magnitude.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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