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Sean Christopherson
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Move CR4 caching into the standard register caching mechanism in order to take advantage of the availability checks provided by regs_avail. This avoids multiple VMREADs and retpolines (when configured) during nested VMX transitions as kvm_read_cr4_bits() is invoked multiple times on each transition, e.g. when stuffing CR0 and CR3. As an added bonus, this eliminates a kvm_x86_ops hook, saves a retpoline on SVM when reading CR4, and squashes the confusing naming discrepancy of "cache_reg" vs. "decache_cr4_guest_bits". No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200502043234.12481-7-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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