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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops structure
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:51:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190924005152.GA4658@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <057fc5f2-7343-943f-ed86-59f1ad5122e5@redhat.com>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:21:43PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/09/19 23:25, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Cleanup after this was finally left fully unused.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h              | 19 -------------------
> >  arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c          | 15 ---------------
> >  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |  1 -
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c    | 15 ---------------
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  2 --
> >  6 files changed, 55 deletions(-)
> 
> Is there any reason not to do the same for kvm_x86_ops?

This was covered in the commit header of patch 2:

To reduce the rejecting parts while tracking upstream, this doesn't
attempt to entirely remove the kvm_x86_ops structure yet, that is
meant for a later cleanup. The pmu ops have been already cleaned up in
this patchset because it was left completely unused right after the
conversion from pointer to functions to external functions.

Lot more patches are needed to get rid of kvm_x86_ops entirely because
there are lots of places checking the actual value of the method
before making the indirect call. I tried to start that, but then it
got into potentially heavily rejecting territory, so I thought it was
simpler to start with what I had, considering from a performance
standpoint it's optimal already as far as retpolines are concerned.

> (As an aside, patch 2 is not copying over the comments in the struct
> kvm_x86_ops declarations.  Granted there aren't many, but we should not
> lose the few that exist).

Yes sorry, this was actually unintentional and the comment need to be
retained in the header declaration.

Thanks,
Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-20 21:24 [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86: spec_ctrl: fix SPEC_CTRL initialization after kexec Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 15:30     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 17:34       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:27         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 02/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_x86_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:13     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:51       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:21     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 03/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: handle the request_immediate_exit variation Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:35   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:06     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:45       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24  0:24         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 04/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_pmu_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 05/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_x86_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 06/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_pmu_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:15   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-25 12:13     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 12:32       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 08/17] KVM: monolithic: adjust the section prefixes in the KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 09/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 10/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: use the external functions instead of kvm_x86_ops Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:02   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 11/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove exports Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 12/17] KVM: monolithic: remove exports from KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops structure Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:21   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  0:51     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2019-09-24  1:24       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  1:00     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24  1:25       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  1:55         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24  2:56           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25  7:52           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23  9:31   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-23  9:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:05       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 20:23         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 21:08           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 21:24             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:43               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:52                 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24  0:16             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  0:35               ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24  0:37                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  0:15           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24  0:38             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24  0:46             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 21:46         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25  7:50           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:37     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:53       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 17:42         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 18:15           ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 19:12             ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found]     ` <E8FE7592-69C3-455E-8D80-A2D73BB2E14C@dinechin.org>
2019-09-25 20:51       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 16:28   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 16/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from svm.c " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:01   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 17/17] x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Sean Christopherson

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