Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/pmu: Remove redundant check for MSR_IA32_DS_AREA set handler

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jun 01 2023 - 21:26:14 EST


On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:03:38 +0800, Jinrong Liang wrote:
> After commit 2de154f541fc ("KVM: x86/pmu: Provide "error" semantics
> for unsupported-but-known PMU MSRs"), the guest_cpuid_has(DS) check
> is not necessary any more since if the guest supports X86_FEATURE_DS,
> it never returns 1. And if the guest does not support this feature,
> the set_msr handler will get false from kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr() before
> reaching this point. Therefore, the check will not be true in all cases
> and can be safely removed, which also simplifies the code and improves
> its readability.
>
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 vmx, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: x86/pmu: Remove redundant check for MSR_IA32_DS_AREA set handler
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/33ab767c2628

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