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Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC existence

From Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC existence
Date 2016-02-09 15:00 +0100
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2016-02-08 17:15+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> Usually the in-kernel APIC's existence is checked in the caller.  Do not
> bother checking it again in lapic.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
>  static int __apic_accept_irq(struct kvm_lapic *apic, int delivery_mode,
> @@ -1601,8 +1595,7 @@ static int apic_mmio_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_io_device *this,
>  
>  void kvm_lapic_set_eoi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> -	if (kvm_vcpu_has_lapic(vcpu))
> -		apic_reg_write(vcpu->arch.apic, APIC_EOI, 0);
> +	apic_reg_write(vcpu->arch.apic, APIC_EOI, 0);

This is most likely going to bug on the following path:
  handle_apic_access -> kvm_lapic_set_eoi

Before the change, handle_apic_access would just drop EOIs that should
have gone to user space ... I'm not sure if we tested it, or the path is
really never taken.

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[PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC existence Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 17:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC  existence Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-02-09 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC  existence Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-02-09 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: APIC: remove unnecessary double checks on APIC  existence Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-02-09 16:20 +0100

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