[PATCH RFC] KVM: nSVM: remove useless kvm_clear_*_queue

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 08:56:41 EST


For an event to be in injected state when nested_svm_vmrun executes,
it must have come from exitintinfo when svm_complete_interrupts ran:

vcpu_enter_guest
static_call(kvm_x86_run) -> svm_vcpu_run
svm_complete_interrupts
// now the event went from "exitintinfo" to "injected"
static_call(kvm_x86_handle_exit) -> handle_exit
svm_invoke_exit_handler
vmrun_interception
nested_svm_vmrun

However, no event could have been in exitintinfo before a VMRUN
vmexit. The code in svm.c is a bit more permissive than the one
in vmx.c:

if (is_external_interrupt(svm->vmcb->control.exit_int_info) &&
exit_code != SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + PF_VECTOR &&
exit_code != SVM_EXIT_NPF && exit_code != SVM_EXIT_TASK_SWITCH &&
exit_code != SVM_EXIT_INTR && exit_code != SVM_EXIT_NMI)

but in any case, a VMRUN instruction would not even start to execute
during an attempted event delivery.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 61738ff8ef33..5e13357da21e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -659,11 +659,6 @@ int nested_svm_vmrun(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
goto out;
}

-
- /* Clear internal status */
- kvm_clear_exception_queue(vcpu);
- kvm_clear_interrupt_queue(vcpu);
-
/*
* Since vmcb01 is not in use, we can use it to store some of the L1
* state.
--
2.27.0