[PATCH 2/7] KVM: x86: Drop superfluous kvm_lapic_set_base() call when setting APIC state
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Oct 09 2024 - 14:18:24 EST
Now that kvm_lapic_set_base() does nothing if the "new" APIC base MSR is
the same as the current value, drop the kvm_lapic_set_base() call in the
KVM_SET_LAPIC flow that passes in the current value, as it too does
nothing.
Note, the purpose of invoking kvm_lapic_set_base() was purely to set
apic->base_address (see commit 5dbc8f3fed0b ("KVM: use kvm_lapic_set_base()
to change apic_base")). And there is no evidence that explicitly setting
apic->base_address in KVM_SET_LAPIC ever had any functional impact; even
in the original commit 96ad2cc61324 ("KVM: in-kernel LAPIC save and restore
support"), all flows that set apic_base also set apic->base_address to the
same address. E.g. svm_create_vcpu() did open code a write to apic_base,
svm->vcpu.apic_base = 0xfee00000 | MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE;
but it also called kvm_create_lapic() when irqchip_in_kernel() is true.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index ffccd6e7e5c1..fe30f465611f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -3072,7 +3072,6 @@ int kvm_apic_set_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_lapic_state *s)
kvm_x86_call(apicv_pre_state_restore)(vcpu);
- kvm_lapic_set_base(vcpu, vcpu->arch.apic_base);
/* set SPIV separately to get count of SW disabled APICs right */
apic_set_spiv(apic, *((u32 *)(s->regs + APIC_SPIV)));
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2.47.0.rc1.288.g06298d1525-goog