From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:06:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4 1/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Remove redundant preemptible checks In-Reply-To: <1505513994-77939-2-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> (Christoffer Dall's message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:19:48 -0700") References: <1505513994-77939-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> <1505513994-77939-2-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Message-ID: <87sheruxkd.fsf@on-the-bus.cambridge.arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Sep 15 2017 at 3:19:48 pm BST, Christoffer Dall wrote: > From: Christoffer Dall > > The __this_cpu_read() and __this_cpu_write() functions already implement > checks for the required preemption levels when using > CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT which gives you nice error messages and such. > Therefore there is no need to explicitly check this using a BUG_ON() in > the code (which we don't do for other uses of per cpu variables either). > > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall > --- > virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c > index a39a1e1..04313a2 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c > @@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, kvm_arm_hardware_enabled); > > static void kvm_arm_set_running_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) > { > - BUG_ON(preemptible()); > __this_cpu_write(kvm_arm_running_vcpu, vcpu); > } > > @@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ static void kvm_arm_set_running_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) > */ > struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void) > { > - BUG_ON(preemptible()); > return __this_cpu_read(kvm_arm_running_vcpu); > } Acked-by: Marc Zyngier M. -- Jazz is not dead, it just smell funny.