linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] KVM: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:13:45 +0800
From:   Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>
To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] KVM: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL



On 7/22/23 10:22, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() or CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
> are two mechanisms to solve the same problem, allowing
> architecture-specific code to provide a non-IPI implementation of
> remote TLB flushing.
> 
> Dropping CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL allows KVM to standardize
> all architectures on kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() instead of
> maintaining two mechanisms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/Kconfig    | 3 ---
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 --
>   2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/Kconfig b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
> index b74916de5183..484d0873061c 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/Kconfig
> +++ b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
> @@ -62,9 +62,6 @@ config HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
>   config KVM_VFIO
>          bool
>   
> -config HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
> -       bool
> -
>   config HAVE_KVM_INVALID_WAKEUPS
>          bool
>   
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 70e5479797ac..d6b050786155 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ bool kvm_make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_make_all_cpus_request);
>   
> -#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
>   void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(struct kvm *kvm)
>   {
>   	++kvm->stat.generic.remote_tlb_flush_requests;
> @@ -366,7 +365,6 @@ void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(struct kvm *kvm)
>   		++kvm->stat.generic.remote_tlb_flush;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_flush_remote_tlbs);
> -#endif
>   
>   static void kvm_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
>   {

-- 
Shaoqin