Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: SVM: Drop unneeded CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC check for AVIC

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 05:54:47 EST


On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 16:43 +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> AVIC dependency on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is dead code since
> commit e42eef4ba388 ("KVM: add X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency").

Indeed!
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

>
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 2 --
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 4 +---
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> index 712b4e0de481..1c1bf911e02b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> @@ -29,9 +29,7 @@
>
> /* enable / disable AVIC */
> int avic;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> module_param(avic, int, S_IRUGO);
> -#endif
>
> #define SVM_AVIC_DOORBELL 0xc001011b
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index dfa351e605de..8c3918a11826 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -1010,9 +1010,7 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
> }
>
> if (avic) {
> - if (!npt_enabled ||
> - !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVIC) ||
> - !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)) {
> + if (!npt_enabled || !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVIC)) {
> avic = false;
> } else {
> pr_info("AVIC enabled\n");