Commit 678e315e authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: vmx: add dedicated utility to access guest's kernel_gs_base

When lazy save/restore of MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE was introduced[1], the
MSR was intercepted in all modes and was only restored for the host
when the guest is in 64-bit mode.  So at the time, going through the
full host restore prior to accessing MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE was necessary
to load host state and was not a significant waste of cycles.

Later, MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE interception was disabled for a 64-bit
guest[2], and then unconditionally saved/restored for the host[3].
As a result, loading full host state is overkill for accesses to
MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, and completely unnecessary when the guest is
not in 64-bit mode.

Add a dedicated utility to read/write the guest's MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE
(outside of the save/restore flow) to minimize the overhead incurred
when accessing the MSR.  When setting EFER, only decache the MSR if
the new EFER will disable long mode.

Removing out-of-band usage of vmx_load_host_state() also eliminates,
or at least reduces, ...
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