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diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
index f79541989471..a9c8cfe61cd4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
@@ -46,10 +46,64 @@ ENTRY(lguest_entry)
.globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name
LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
-LGUEST_PATCH(sti, movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
-LGUEST_PATCH(popf, movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax)
-/*:*/
+
+/*G:033 But using those wrappers is inefficient (we'll see why that doesn't
+ * matter for save_fl and irq_disable later). If we write our routines
+ * carefully in assembler, we can avoid clobbering any registers and avoid
+ * jumping through the wrapper functions.
+ *
+ * I skipped over our first piece of assembler, but this one is worth studying
+ * in a bit more detail so I'll describe in easy stages. First, the routine
+ * to enable interrupts: */
+ENTRY(lg_irq_enable)
+ /* The reverse of irq_disable, this sets lguest_data.irq_enabled to
+ * X86_EFLAGS_IF (ie. "Interrupts enabled"). */
+ movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
+ /* But now we need to check if the Host wants to know: there might have
+ * been interrupts waiting to be delivered, in which case it will have
+ * set lguest_data.irq_pending to X86_EFLAGS_IF. If it's not zero, we
+ * jump to send_interrupts, otherwise we're done. */
+ testl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_pending
+ jnz send_interrupts
+ /* One cool thing about x86 is that you can do many things without using
+ * a register. In this case, the normal path hasn't needed to save or
+ * restore any registers at all! */
+ ret
+send_interrupts:
+ /* OK, now we need a register: eax is used for the hypercall number,
+ * which is LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS.
+ *
+ * We used not to bother with this pending detection at all, which was
+ * much simpler. Sooner or later the Host would realize it had to
+ * send us an interrupt. But that turns out to make performance 7
+ * times worse on a simple tcp benchmark. So now we do this the hard
+ * way. */
+ pushl %eax
+ movl $LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS, %eax
+ /* This is a vmcall instruction (same thing that KVM uses). Older
+ * assembler versions might not know the "vmcall" instruction, so we
+ * create one manually here. */
+ .byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1 /* KVM_HYPERCALL */
+ popl %eax
+ ret
+
+/* Finally, the "popf" or "restore flags" routine. The %eax register holds the
+ * flags (in practice, either X86_EFLAGS_IF or 0): if it's X86_EFLAGS_IF we're
+ * enabling interrupts again, if it's 0 we're leaving them off. */
+ENTRY(lg_restore_fl)
+ /* This is just "lguest_data.irq_enabled = flags;" */
+ movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
+ /* Now, if the %eax value has enabled interrupts and
+ * lguest_data.irq_pending is set, we want to tell the Host so it can
+ * deliver any outstanding interrupts. Fortunately, both values will
+ * be X86_EFLAGS_IF (ie. 512) in that case, and the "testl"
+ * instruction will AND them together for us. If both are set, we
+ * jump to send_interrupts. */
+ testl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_pending, %eax
+ jnz send_interrupts
+ /* Again, the normal path has used no extra registers. Clever, huh? */
+ ret
/* These demark the EIP range where host should never deliver interrupts. */
.global lguest_noirq_start