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, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 1757788..961d10c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -388,6 +388,8 @@ extern struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops;
 	asm("start_" #ops "_" #name ": " code "; end_" #ops "_" #name ":")
 
 unsigned paravirt_patch_nop(void);
+unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len);
+unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_64(void *insnbuf, unsigned len);
 unsigned paravirt_patch_ignore(unsigned len);
 unsigned paravirt_patch_call(void *insnbuf,
 			     const void *target, u16 tgt_clobbers,
@@ -1371,6 +1373,9 @@ static inline void __set_fixmap(unsigned /* enum fixed_addresses */ idx,
 }
 
 void _paravirt_nop(void);
+u32 _paravirt_ident_32(u32);
+u64 _paravirt_ident_64(u64);
+
 #define paravirt_nop	((void *)_paravirt_nop)
 
 void paravirt_use_bytelocks(void);