Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: Identify vCPU0 by its vcpu_idx instead of walking vCPUs array

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 03:08:09 EST


Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Use vcpu_idx to identify vCPU0 when updating HyperV's TSC page, which is
> shared by all vCPUs and "owned" by vCPU0 (because vCPU0 is the only vCPU
> that's guaranteed to exist). Using kvm_get_vcpu() to find vCPU works,
> but it's a rather odd and suboptimal method to check the index of a given
> vCPU.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 86539c1686fa..6ab851df08d1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
> offsetof(struct compat_vcpu_info, time));
> if (vcpu->xen.vcpu_time_info_set)
> kvm_setup_pvclock_page(v, &vcpu->xen.vcpu_time_info_cache, 0);
> - if (v == kvm_get_vcpu(v->kvm, 0))
> + if (!v->vcpu_idx)
> kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page(v->kvm, &vcpu->hv_clock);
> return 0;
> }

" ... instead of walking vCPUs array" in the Subject line is a bit
confusing because kvm_get_vcpu() doesn't actually walk anything, it just
returns 'kvm->vcpus[i]' after checking that we actually have that many
vCPUs. The patch itself is OK, so

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly