From 0a434bb2bf094f463ca3ca71ac42cea9e423048f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:59:33 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Avoid reading %rip unnecessarily when handling
 exceptions

Avoids a VMREAD.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 3f6e9bff0160..139a5cb1f5e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3170,7 +3170,6 @@ static int handle_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	}
 
 	error_code = 0;
-	rip = kvm_rip_read(vcpu);
 	if (intr_info & INTR_INFO_DELIVER_CODE_MASK)
 		error_code = vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_INTR_ERROR_CODE);
 	if (is_page_fault(intr_info)) {
@@ -3217,6 +3216,7 @@ static int handle_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		vmx->vcpu.arch.event_exit_inst_len =
 			vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN);
 		kvm_run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_DEBUG;
+		rip = kvm_rip_read(vcpu);
 		kvm_run->debug.arch.pc = vmcs_readl(GUEST_CS_BASE) + rip;
 		kvm_run->debug.arch.exception = ex_no;
 		break;
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