[PATCH v2 45/50] KVM: Remove on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock) in kvm_exit()

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 18:17:32 EST


From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>

Drop the superfluous invocation of hardware_disable_nolock() during
kvm_exit(), as it's nothing more than a glorified nop.

KVM automatically disables hardware on all CPUs when the last VM is
destroyed, and kvm_exit() cannot be called until the last VM goes
away as the calling module is pinned by an elevated refcount of the fops
associated with /dev/kvm. This holds true even on x86, where the caller
of kvm_exit() is not kvm.ko, but is instead a dependent module, kvm_amd.ko
or kvm_intel.ko, as kvm_chardev_ops.owner is set to the module that calls
kvm_init(), not hardcoded to the base kvm.ko module.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
[sean: rework changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6a8fb53b32f0..a27ded004644 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -5981,7 +5981,6 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
unregister_syscore_ops(&kvm_syscore_ops);
unregister_reboot_notifier(&kvm_reboot_notifier);
cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_KVM_ONLINE);
- on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock, NULL, 1);
kvm_irqfd_exit();
free_cpumask_var(cpus_hardware_enabled);
}
--
2.38.1.584.g0f3c55d4c2-goog