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KVM: VMX: Drop pointless PI.NDST update when blocking
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Sat, 9 Oct 2021 02:12:17 +0000 (19:12 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Dec 2021 09:24:56 +0000 (04:24 -0500)
commit29802380b6793eabcac648e1c097c7bd6333f3d4
tree2a26904bb189ac6d3f119873e493792f38c4c06b
parent74ba5bc872d3fb173b94fe9a1b8f6eaa807fc4ad
KVM: VMX: Drop pointless PI.NDST update when blocking

Don't update Posted Interrupt's NDST, a.k.a. the target pCPU, in the
pre-block path, as NDST is guaranteed to be up-to-date.  The comment
about the vCPU being preempted during the update is simply wrong, as the
update path runs with IRQs disabled (from before snapshotting vcpu->cpu,
until after the update completes).

Since commit 8b306e2f3c41 ("KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d
posted interrupts", 2017-09-27) The vCPU can get preempted _before_
the update starts, but not during.  And if the vCPU is preempted before,
vmx_vcpu_pi_load() is responsible for updating NDST when the vCPU is
scheduled back in.  In that case, the check against the wakeup vector in
vmx_vcpu_pi_load() cannot be true as that would require the notification
vector to have been set to the wakeup vector _before_ blocking.

Opportunistically switch to using vcpu->cpu for the list/lock lookups,
which do not need pre_pcpu since the same commit.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211009021236.4122790-25-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c