linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop a redundant remote TLB flush in kvm_zap_gfn

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Message-Id: <20211022010005.1454978-3-seanjc@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:00:04 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        "Maciej S . Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop a redundant remote TLB flush in kvm_zap_gfn_range()

Remove an unnecessary remote TLB flush in kvm_zap_gfn_range() now that
said function holds mmu_lock for write for its entire duration.  The
flush was added by the now-reverted commit to allow TDP MMU to flush while
holding mmu_lock for read, as the transition from write=>read required
dropping the lock and thus a pending flush needed to be serviced.

Fixes: 5a324c24b638 ("Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Allow zap gfn range to operate under the mmu read lock"")
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Cc: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index f82b192bba0b..e8b8a665e2e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -5700,9 +5700,6 @@ void kvm_zap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn_start, gfn_t gfn_end)
 						end - 1, true, flush);
 			}
 		}
-		if (flush)
-			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, gfn_start,
-							   gfn_end - gfn_start);
 	}
 
 	if (is_tdp_mmu_enabled(kvm)) {
-- 
2.33.0.1079.g6e70778dc9-goog