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Commit 229725ac authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson
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KVM: SVM: Clean up preemption toggling related to MSR_AMD64_TSC_RATIO

Explicitly disable preemption when writing MSR_AMD64_TSC_RATIO only in the
"outer" helper, as all direct callers of the "inner" helper now run with
preemption already disabled.  And that isn't a coincidence, as the outer
helper requires a vCPU and is intended to be used when modifying guest
state and/or emulating guest instructions, which are typically done with
preemption enabled.

Direct use of the inner helper should be extremely limited, as the only
time KVM should modify MSR_AMD64_TSC_RATIO without a vCPU is when
sanitizing the MSR for a specific pCPU (currently done when {en,dis}abling
disabling SVM). The other direct caller is svm_prepare_switch_to_guest(),
which does have a vCPU, but is a one-off special case: KVM is about to
enter the guest on a specific pCPU and thus must have preemption disabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230729011608.1065019-5-seanjc@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
parent c0dc39bd
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