linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: VMX: Add error handling to VMREAD helper

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Date:   Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:36:41 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: VMX: Add error handling to VMREAD helper

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 01:41:08PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> @@ -68,8 +67,22 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long __vmcs_readl(unsigned long field)
>  {
>  	unsigned long value;
>  
> -	asm volatile (__ex_clear("vmread %1, %0", "%k0")
> -		      : "=r"(value) : "r"(field));
> +	asm volatile("1: vmread %2, %1\n\t"
> +		     ".byte 0x3e\n\t" /* branch taken hint */
> +		     "ja 3f\n\t"
> +		     "mov %2, %%" _ASM_ARG1 "\n\t"
> +		     "xor %%" _ASM_ARG2 ", %%" _ASM_ARG2 "\n\t"
> +		     "2: call vmread_error\n\t"
> +		     "xor %k1, %k1\n\t"
> +		     "3:\n\t"
> +
> +		     ".pushsection .fixup, \"ax\"\n\t"
> +		     "4: mov %2, %%" _ASM_ARG1 "\n\t"
> +		     "mov $1, %%" _ASM_ARG2 "\n\t"
> +		     "jmp 2b\n\t"
> +		     ".popsection\n\t"
> +		     _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 4b)
> +		     : ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT, "=r"(value) : "r"(field) : "cc");

Was there a reason you didn't do the asm goto thing here like you did
for the previous patch?  That seemed cleaner, and needs less asm.  

I think the branch hints aren't needed -- they're ignored on modern
processors.  Ditto for the previous patch.

Also please use named asm operands whereever you can, like "%[field]"
instead of "%2".  It helps a lot with readability.

-- 
Josh