KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool
authorJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:22:25 +0000 (17:22 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:36:02 +0000 (12:36 +0100)
commit46e24dfc2dfe0062a77538698c84f13b24ce9b2c
treee5dfe8d89c075023738d3e5c9b072967f017920d
parentb7649e1776706c28d837d423412c1763900e521e
KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool

(cherry picked from commit de3a0021a60635de96aa92713c1a31a96747d72c)

The potential performance advantages of a vmcs02 pool have never been
realized. To simplify the code, eliminate the pool. Instead, a single
vmcs02 is allocated per VCPU when the VCPU enters VMX operation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # prereq for Spectre mitigation
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ameya More <ameya.more@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c