Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/kvm: introduce per cpu vcpu masks

From: Eduardo Habkost
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 12:05:13 EST


On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 03:08:04PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In order to support high vcpu numbers per guest don't use on stack
> vcpu bitmasks. As all those currently used bitmasks are not used in
> functions subject to recursion it is fairly easy to replace them with
> percpu bitmasks.
>
> Disable preemption while such a bitmask is being used in order to
> avoid double usage in case we'd switch cpus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Note that there's another patch that will introduce another
KVM_MAX_VCPUS bitmap variable on the stack:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210827092516.1027264-7-vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx/

Considering that the patch is a bug fix, should this series be
rebased on top of that?

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Eduardo