Re: [PATCH v5 16/30] KVM: Remove on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock) in kvm_exit()

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 16:51:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> hardware_enable/disable_nolock() check if the hardware is already
> enabled/disabled and work as nop when they are called multiple times.
>
> When VM is created/destroyed, on_each_cpu(hardware_enable/disable_nolock)
> via kvm_arch_add/del_vm() and module_get/put() are called. It means when
> kvm module is removed, it's guaranteed that there is no vm and that
> hardware_disable_nolock() was called on each cpus.
>
> Although the module exit function, kvm_exit(), calls
> on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock), it's essentially nop. Eliminate nop
> call in kvm_exit().

Add a WARN to "prove" that this is a nop, to guard against future bugs, and to
document that it should be impossible for KVM to be unloaded with active VMs.
E.g. do this in addition to dropping the hardware disabling.

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 1c1a2b0630bc..ca2251d02c77 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -5855,6 +5855,8 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
{
int cpu;

+ WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_usage_count);
+
debugfs_remove_recursive(kvm_debugfs_dir);
misc_deregister(&kvm_dev);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)

>
> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index ad9b8b7d21fa..d7c3bc14691f 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -6034,7 +6034,6 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
> unregister_syscore_ops(&kvm_syscore_ops);
> unregister_reboot_notifier(&kvm_reboot_notifier);
> cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_KVM_ONLINE);
> - on_each_cpu(hardware_disable_nolock, NULL, 1);
> kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup();
> kvm_arch_exit();
> kvm_irqfd_exit();