linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: don't retry hopeless APIC delivery

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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 20:03:14 +0100
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: don't retry hopeless APIC delivery

False from kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast() means that we don't handle it
in the fast path, but we still return false in cases that were perfectly
handled, fix that.

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index f6e3369..6c2b8a5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -687,6 +687,8 @@ bool kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *src,
 	if (irq->dest_id == map->broadcast)
 		goto out;
 
+	ret = true;
+
 	if (irq->dest_mode == 0) { /* physical mode */
 		if (irq->dest_id >= ARRAY_SIZE(map->phys_map))
 			goto out;
@@ -725,8 +727,6 @@ bool kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *src,
 			*r = 0;
 		*r += kvm_apic_set_irq(dst[i]->vcpu, irq, dest_map);
 	}
-
-	ret = true;
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return ret;
-- 
2.1.0

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