RISC-V: KVM: Refine __kvm_riscv_switch_to() implementation
Kernel uses __kvm_riscv_switch_to() and __kvm_switch_return() to switch the context of host kernel and guest kernel. Several CSRs belonging to the context will be read and written during the context switch. To ensure atomic read-modify-write control of CSR and ordering of CSR accesses, some hardware blocks flush the pipeline when writing a CSR. In this circumstance, grouping CSR executions together as much as possible can reduce the performance impact of the pipeline. Therefore, this commit reorders the CSR instructions to enhance the context switch performance.. Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com> Suggested-by: Hsinyi Lee <hsinyi.lee@sifive.com> Suggested-by: Fu-Ching Yang <fu-ching.yang@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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