linux-kernel - [PATCH 40/44] KVM: Remove on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock) in kvm

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Date:   Wed,  2 Nov 2022 23:19:07 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
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        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Eric Farman <farman@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
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        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
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        Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>,
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        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Yuan Yao <yuan.yao@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 40/44] KVM: Remove on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock) in kvm_exit()

From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>

Drop the superfluous invocation of hardware_disable_nolock() during
kvm_exit(), as it's nothing more than a glorified nop.

KVM automatically disables hardware on all CPUs when the last VM is
destroyed, and kvm_exit() cannot be called until the last VM goes
away as the calling module is pinned by an elevated refcount of the fops
associated with /dev/kvm.  This holds true even on x86, where the caller
of kvm_exit() is not kvm.ko, but is instead a dependent module, kvm_amd.ko
or kvm_intel.ko, as kvm_chardev_ops.owner is set to the module that calls
kvm_init(), not hardcoded to the base kvm.ko module.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
[sean: rework changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index c8d92e6c3922..4a42b78bfb0e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -5966,7 +5966,6 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
 	unregister_syscore_ops(&kvm_syscore_ops);
 	unregister_reboot_notifier(&kvm_reboot_notifier);
 	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_KVM_ONLINE);
-	on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock, NULL, 1);
 	kvm_irqfd_exit();
 	free_cpumask_var(cpus_hardware_enabled);
 }
-- 
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog