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It's enough to check the exit value and issue a direct call to avoid the retpoline for all the common vmexit reasons. Of course CONFIG_RETPOLINE already forbids gcc to use indirect jumps while compiling all switch() statements, however switch() would still allow the compiler to bisect the case value. It's more efficient to prioritize the most frequent vmexits instead. The halt may be slow paths from the point of the guest, but not necessarily so from the point of the host if the host runs at full CPU capacity and no host CPU is ever left idle. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.