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Explicitly flag a uret MSR as needing to be loaded into hardware instead of resorting the list of "active" MSRs and tracking how many MSRs in total need to be loaded. The only benefit to sorting the list is that the loop to load MSRs during vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest() doesn't need to iterate over all supported uret MRS, only those that are active. But that is a pointless optimization, as the most common case, running a 64-bit guest, will load the vast majority of MSRs. Not to mention that a single WRMSR is far more expensive than iterating over the list. Providing a stable list order obviates the need to track a given MSR's "slot" in the per-CPU list of user return MSRs; all lists simply use the same ordering. Future patches will take advantage of the stable order to further simplify the related code. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210504171734.1434054-10-seanjc@google.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.