From: Andrew Scull <ascull@google.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
kernel-team@android.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Remove host_cpu_context member from vcpu structure
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 15:51:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200608145145.GA96714@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200608085657.1405730-1-maz@kernel.org>
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:56:57AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> For very long, we have kept this pointer back to the per-cpu
> host state, despite having working per-cpu accessors at EL2
> for some time now.
>
> Recent investigations have shown that this pointer is easy
> to abuse in preemptible context, which is a sure sign that
> it would better be gone. Not to mention that a per-cpu
> pointer is faster to access at all times.
Helps to make the references to `kvm_host_data` clearer with there now
being just one way to get to it and shows that it is scoped to the
current CPU. A good change IMO!
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-08 8:56 [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Remove host_cpu_context member from vcpu structure Marc Zyngier
2020-06-08 14:51 ` Andrew Scull [this message]
2020-06-08 15:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-08 17:09 ` Andrew Scull
2020-06-08 16:29 ` Mark Rutland
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