linux/virt
Venkatesh Srinivas 82e9c84d87 KVM: Remove kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except()
Remove kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() as it effectively has no users,
and arguably should never have been added in the first place.

Commit 54163a346d ("KVM: Introduce kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except()")
added the "except" variation for use in SVM's AVIC update path, which used
it to skip sending a request to the current vCPU (commit 7d611233b0
("KVM: SVM: Disable AVIC before setting V_IRQ")).

But the AVIC usage of kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() was essentially a
hack-a-fix that simply squashed the most likely scenario of a racy WARN
without addressing the underlying problem(s).  Commit f1577ab214 ("KVM:
SVM: svm_set_vintr don't warn if AVIC is active but is about to be
deactivated") eventually fixed the WARN itself, and the "except" usage was
subsequently dropped by df63202fe5 ("KVM: x86: APICv: drop immediate
APICv disablement on current vCPU").

That kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() hasn't gained any users in the
last ~3 years isn't a coincidence.  If a VM-wide broadcast *needs* to skip
the current vCPU, then odds are very good that there is underlying bug
that could be better fixed elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404232651.1645176-1-venkateshs@chromium.org
[sean: rewrite changelog with --verbose]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2024-05-02 07:47:03 -07:00
..
kvm KVM: Remove kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() 2024-05-02 07:47:03 -07:00
lib Revert "irqbypass: do not start cons/prod when failed connect" 2021-05-15 10:26:55 +01:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00