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SubjectRe: [RFC 29/33] KVM: VMX: Save instruction length on EPT violation
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2023, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 08.11.23 12:18, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > Save the length of the instruction that triggered an EPT violation in
> > struct kvm_vcpu_arch. This will be used to populate Hyper-V VSM memory
> > intercept messages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@amazon.com>
>
>
> In v1, please do this for SVM as well :)

Why? KVM caches values on VMX because VMREAD is measurable slower than memory
accesses, especially when running nested. SVM has no such problems. I wouldn't
be surprised if adding a "cache" is actually less performant due to increased
pressure and misses on the hardware cache.

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