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Message-ID: <941e45b1-49eb-fcba-20d4-71b1db8041c5@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:46:53 +0200
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Yikebaer Aizezi <yikebaer61@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Remove WARN sanity check on hypervisor timer
vs. UNINITIALIZED vCPU
On 8/9/23 01:20, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> /*
> - * It should be impossible for the hypervisor timer to be in
> - * use before KVM has ever run the vCPU.
> + * Don't bother switching APIC timer emulation from the
> + * hypervisor timer to the software timer, the only way for the
> + * APIC timer to be active is if userspace stuffed vCPU state,
> + * i.e. put the vCPU into a nonsensical state. Only an INIT
> + * will transition the vCPU out of UNINITIALIZED (without more
> + * state stuffing from userspace), which will reset the local
> + * APIC and thus smother the timer anyways, i.e. the APIC timer
"Cancel" is probably more understandable to non-native speakers, though
undoubtedly less poetic.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Paolo
> + * IRQ(s) will be dropped no matter what.
> */
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_lapic_hv_timer_in_use(vcpu));
> -
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