KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context
On VMX, KVM currently does not re-enable irqs until after it has exited the guest context. As a result, a tick that fires in the window between VM-Exit and guest_exit_irqoff() will be accounted as system time. While said window is relatively small, it's large enough to be problematic in some configurations, e.g. if VM-Exits are consistently occurring a hair earlier than the tick irq. Intentionally toggle irqs back off so that guest_exit_irqoff() can be used in lieu of guest_exit() in order to avoid the save/restore of flags in guest_exit(). On my Haswell system, "nop; cli; sti" is ~6 cycles, versus ~28 cycles for "pushf; pop <reg>; cli; push <reg>; popf". Fixes: f2485b3e ("KVM: x86: use guest_exit_irqoff") Reported-by: Wei Yang <w90p710@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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