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    KVM: vmx: Allow the guest to run with dirty debug registers · 81908bf4
    Paolo Bonzini 提交于
    When not running in guest-debug mode (i.e. the guest controls the debug
    registers, having to take an exit for each DR access is a waste of time.
    If the guest gets into a state where each context switch causes DR to be
    saved and restored, this can take away as much as 40% of the execution
    time from the guest.
    
    If the guest is running with vcpu->arch.db == vcpu->arch.eff_db, we
    can let it write freely to the debug registers and reload them on the
    next exit.  We still need to exit on the first access, so that the
    KVM_DEBUGREG_WONT_EXIT flag is set in switch_db_regs; after that, further
    accesses to the debug registers will not cause a vmexit.
    Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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