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Sean Christopherson
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Except for RSP and RIP, which are held in VMX's VMCS, GPRs are always treated "available and dirtly" on both VMX and SVM, i.e. are unconditionally loaded/saved immediately before/after VM-Enter/VM-Exit. Eliminating the unnecessary caching code reduces the size of KVM by a non-trivial amount, much of which comes from the most common code paths. E.g. on x86_64, kvm_emulate_cpuid() is reduced from 342 to 182 bytes and kvm_emulate_hypercall() from 1362 to 1143, with the total size of KVM dropping by ~1000 bytes. With CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, the numbers are even more pronounced, e.g.: 353->182, 1418->1172 and well over 2000 bytes. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.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.