Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] x86, lib: Add wbinvd and wbnoinvd helpers to target multiple CPUs

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Zheyun Shen <szy0127@sjtu.edu.cn>
> > 
> > Extract KVM's open-coded calls to do writeback caches on multiple CPUs to
> > common library helpers for both WBINVD and WBNOINVD (KVM will use both).
> > Put the onus on the caller to check for a non-empty mask to simplify the
> > SMP=n implementation, e.g. so that it doesn't need to check that the one
> > and only CPU in the system is present in the mask.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zheyun Shen <szy0127@sjtu.edu.cn>
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128015345.7929-2-szy0127@sjtu.edu.cn
> > [sean: move to lib, add SMP=n helpers, clarify usage]
> > Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c         |  8 +-------
> >  arch/x86/lib/cache-smp.c   | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h
> > index e08f1ae25401..fe98e021f7f8 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h
> > @@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ void native_play_dead(void);
> >  void play_dead_common(void);
> >  void wbinvd_on_cpu(int cpu);
> >  void wbinvd_on_all_cpus(void);
> > +void wbinvd_on_many_cpus(struct cpumask *cpus);
> >  void wbnoinvd_on_all_cpus(void);
> > +void wbnoinvd_on_many_cpus(struct cpumask *cpus);
> 
> Let's go with the _on_cpumask() suffix:
> 
>     void wbinvd_on_cpu(int cpu);
>    +void wbinvd_on_cpumask(struct cpumask *cpus);
>     void wbinvd_on_all_cpus(void);

How about wbinvd_on_cpus_mask(), to make it more obvious that it operates on
multiple CPUs?  At a glance, wbinvd_on_cpumask() could be mistaken for a masked
version of wbinvd_on_cpu().