linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86/pmu: Remove manual clearing of fields in kvm_pmu

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Message-ID: <20231023234000.2499267-5-seanjc@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:39:58 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>,
        Roman Kagan <rkagan@...zon.de>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86/pmu: Remove manual clearing of fields in kvm_pmu_init()

Remove code the unnecessarily clears event_count and need_cleanup in
kvm_pmu_init(), the entire kvm_pmu is zeroed just a few lines earlier.
Vendor code doesn't set event_count or need_cleanup during .init(), and
if either VMX or SVM did set those fields it would be a flagrant bug.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index 458e836c6efe..c06090196b00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -710,8 +710,6 @@ void kvm_pmu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	memset(pmu, 0, sizeof(*pmu));
 	static_call(kvm_x86_pmu_init)(vcpu);
-	pmu->event_count = 0;
-	pmu->need_cleanup = false;
 	kvm_pmu_refresh(vcpu);
 }
 
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