linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: SVM: Remove TSS reloading code after VMEXIT

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Date:   Thu,  1 Jun 2023 18:23:13 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Michael Roth <Michael.Roth@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: SVM: Remove TSS reloading code after VMEXIT

On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:56:35 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Remove TSS reloading code after VMEXIT since upstream KVM after [1] has
> already been using VMLOAD to load host segment state (including TSS).
> Therefore, reload_tss() becomes redundant and could have been removed in
> [1]. So fix it by removing remove reload_tss() and the relevant data field
> tss_desc in svm_cpu_data as well as its data structure definition.
> 
> [1] Check the Fixes tag.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 svm, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: SVM: Remove TSS reloading code after VMEXIT
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/0d3518d2f8c3

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https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/tree/next
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/tree/fixes