linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM: Register cpuhp/syscore callbacks when enabling virt

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Message-ID: <653c48d0d9e352d4adf5167dd9f45fa9dbd0032b.camel@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:59:31 +0000
From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>
To: "pbonzini@...hat.com" <pbonzini@...hat.com>, "seanjc@...gle.com"
	<seanjc@...gle.com>
CC: "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Gao, Chao"
	<chao.gao@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM: Register cpuhp/syscore callbacks when
 enabling virt

On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 17:06 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling virtualization in
> hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks is to disable and re-enable
> virtualization as needed.
> 
> The primary motivation for this series is to simplify dealing with enabling
> virtualization for Intel's TDX, which needs to enable virtualization
> when kvm-intel.ko is loaded, i.e. long before the first VM is created.  TDX
> doesn't _need_ to keep virtualization enabled, but doing so is much simpler
> for KVM (see patch 3).
> 
> That said, this is a nice cleanup on its own, assuming I haven't broken
> something.  By registering the callbacks on-demand, the callbacks themselves
> don't need to check kvm_usage_count, because their very existence implies a
> non-zero count.
> 
> 

For this series,

Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>