[PATCH v4 03/16] target/i386/emulate/x86_decode: Actually use stream in decode_instruction_stream()

Mohamed Mediouni posted 16 patches 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Maintainers: Pedro Barbuda <pbarbuda@microsoft.com>, Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>, Cameron Esfahani <dirty@apple.com>, Roman Bolshakov <rbolshakov@ddn.com>, Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Magnus Kulke <magnus.kulke@linux.microsoft.com>
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[PATCH v4 03/16] target/i386/emulate/x86_decode: Actually use stream in decode_instruction_stream()
Posted by Mohamed Mediouni 1 month, 2 weeks ago
From: Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com>

Compared to decode_instruction(), decode_instruction_stream() has an additional
stream parameter which avoids some guest memory accesses during instruction
decoding. Both functions defer the actual work to decode_opcode() which would
set the stream pointer to zero such that decode_instruction_stream() essentially
behaved like decode_instruction(). Given that all callers of
decode_instruction_stream() properly zero-initialize the decode parameter, the
memset() call can be moved into decode_instruction() which is the only other
user of decode_opcode(). This preserves the non-zero stream pointer which
avoids extra guest memory accesses.

Fixes: 1e25327b244a ("target/i386/emulate: Allow instruction decoding from stream")
cc: qemu-stable
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu (Microsoft) <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Magnus Kulke <magnuskulke@linux.microsoft.com>
---
 target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c b/target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c
index 6ad03b71b0..7bbcd2a9a2 100644
--- a/target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c
+++ b/target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c
@@ -2088,8 +2088,6 @@ static void decode_opcodes(CPUX86State *env, struct x86_decode *decode)
 
 static uint32_t decode_opcode(CPUX86State *env, struct x86_decode *decode)
 {
-    memset(decode, 0, sizeof(*decode));
-
     decode_prefix(env, decode);
     set_addressing_size(env, decode);
     set_operand_size(env, decode);
@@ -2101,6 +2099,8 @@ static uint32_t decode_opcode(CPUX86State *env, struct x86_decode *decode)
 
 uint32_t decode_instruction(CPUX86State *env, struct x86_decode *decode)
 {
+    memset(decode, 0, sizeof(*decode));
+
     return decode_opcode(env, decode);
 }
 
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