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Commit d40a6898 authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: emulate: protect checks on ctxt->d by a common "if (unlikely())"



There are several checks for "peculiar" aspects of instructions in both
x86_decode_insn and x86_emulate_insn.  Group them together, and guard
them with a single "if" that lets the processor quickly skip them all.
Make this more effective by adding two more flag bits that say whether the
.intercept and .check_perm fields are valid.  We will reuse these
flags later to avoid initializing fields of the emulate_ctxt struct.

This skims about 30 cycles for each emulated instructions, which is
approximately a 3% improvement.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent e24186e0
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