x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching

Impact: Optimization

Several paravirt ops implementations simply return their arguments,
the most obvious being the make_pte/pte_val class of operations on
native.

On 32-bit, the identity function is literally a no-op, as the calling
convention uses the same registers for the first argument and return.
On 64-bit, it can be implemented with a single "mov".

This patch adds special identity functions for 32 and 64 bit argument,
and machinery to recognize them and replace them with either nops or a
mov as appropriate.

At the moment, the only users for the identity functions are the
pagetable entry conversion functions.

The result is a measureable improvement on pagetable-heavy benchmarks
(2-3%, reducing the pvops overhead from 5 to 2%).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c
index 9fe644f..d9f32e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c
@@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr3, "mov %cr3, %eax");
 DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, clts, "clts");
 DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, read_tsc, "rdtsc");
 
+unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len)
+{
+	/* arg in %eax, return in %eax */
+	return 0;
+}
+
+unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_64(void *insnbuf, unsigned len)
+{
+	/* arg in %edx:%eax, return in %edx:%eax */
+	return 0;
+}
+
 unsigned native_patch(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *ibuf,
 		      unsigned long addr, unsigned len)
 {