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Message-ID: <20240226184852.GH177224@ls.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:48:52 -0800
From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...ux.intel.com>
To: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
Cc: isaku.yamahata@...el.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@...il.com,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, erdemaktas@...gle.com,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>,
chen.bo@...el.com, hang.yuan@...el.com, tina.zhang@...el.com,
isaku.yamahata@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 007/121] KVM: VMX: Reorder vmx initialization with
kvm vendor initialization
On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 05:34:44PM +0800,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c
> > index 18cecf12c7c8..443db8ec5cd5 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c
> > @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ struct kvm_x86_init_ops vt_init_ops __initdata = {
> > static int __init vt_init(void)
> > {
> > unsigned int vcpu_size, vcpu_align;
> > - int cpu, r;
> > + int r;
> > if (!kvm_is_vmx_supported())
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > @@ -182,18 +182,14 @@ static int __init vt_init(void)
> > */
> > hv_init_evmcs();
> > - /* vmx_hardware_disable() accesses loaded_vmcss_on_cpu. */
> > - for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> > - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(loaded_vmcss_on_cpu, cpu));
> > -
> > - r = kvm_x86_vendor_init(&vt_init_ops);
> > - if (r)
> > - return r;
> > -
> > r = vmx_init();
> > if (r)
> > goto err_vmx_init;
> > + r = kvm_x86_vendor_init(&vt_init_ops);
> > + if (r)
> > + goto err_vendor_init;
> > +
>
> we cannot simply change the calling order of vmx_init() and
> kvm_x86_vendor_init(). There is dependency between them.
>
> e.g.,
>
> kvm_x86_vendor_init()
> -> ops->hardware_setup()
> -> vmx_hardware_setup()
>
> will update 'enable_ept' based on hardware capability (e.g., if the hardware
> support EPT or not), while 'enable_ept' is used in vmx_init().
I gave up this clean up to drop this patch with v19.
--
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...ux.intel.com>
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