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hw: i386: vapic: enable on WHPX with user-mode irqchip

Alleviate a performance bottleneck on legacy Windows guests.

In my test setup, this makes Windows XP boot times be 20x faster
than they're otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260226181930.53170-4-mohamed@unpredictable.fr
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Mohamed Mediouni 1 month ago
committed by Paolo Bonzini
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      hw/i386/vapic.c

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hw/i386/vapic.c

@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include "system/cpus.h"
#include "system/hw_accel.h"
#include "system/kvm.h"
#include "system/whpx.h"
#include "system/runstate.h"
#include "system/address-spaces.h"
#include "hw/i386/apic_internal.h"
@ -229,7 +230,8 @@ static int evaluate_tpr_instruction(VAPICROMState *s, X86CPU *cpu,
return -1;
}
if (kvm_enabled() && !kvm_irqchip_in_kernel()) {
if ((kvm_enabled() && !kvm_irqchip_in_kernel())
|| (whpx_enabled() && !whpx_irqchip_in_kernel())) {
/*
* KVM without kernel-based TPR access reporting will pass an IP that
* points after the accessing instruction. So we need to look backward
@ -549,7 +551,7 @@ static int patch_hypercalls(VAPICROMState *s)
cpu_physical_memory_read(rom_paddr, rom, s->rom_size);
for (pos = 0; pos < s->rom_size - sizeof(vmcall_pattern); pos++) {
if (kvm_irqchip_in_kernel()) {
if (kvm_enabled() && kvm_irqchip_in_kernel()) {
pattern = outl_pattern;
alternates[0] = outl_pattern[7];
alternates[1] = outl_pattern[7];
@ -679,16 +681,25 @@ static void vapic_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t data,
}
break;
case 1:
if (kvm_enabled()) {
if (kvm_enabled() || (whpx_enabled() && !whpx_irqchip_in_kernel())) {
/*
* Disable triggering instruction in ROM by writing a NOP.
*
* We cannot do this in TCG mode as the reported IP is not
* accurate.
*
* Oddly enough, KVM increments EIP _before_ the execution
* of the instruction is finished.
*/
pause_all_vcpus();
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip - 2, 0x66);
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip - 1, 0x90);
if (!kvm_enabled()) {
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip, 0x66);
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip + 1, 0x90);
}
else {
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip - 2, 0x66);
patch_byte(cpu, env->eip - 1, 0x90);
}
resume_all_vcpus();
}
@ -705,7 +716,8 @@ static void vapic_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t data,
break;
default:
case 4:
if (!kvm_irqchip_in_kernel()) {
if ((kvm_enabled() && !kvm_irqchip_in_kernel())
|| (whpx_enabled() && !whpx_irqchip_in_kernel())) {
apic_poll_irq(cpu->apic_state);
}
break;

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