[PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 07:51:24 EST


KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES requires the generic MMU notifier code, because
it uses kvm_mmu_invalidate_begin/end. However, it would not work with a bespoke
implementation of MMU notifiers that does not use KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER,
because most likely it would not synchronize correctly on invalidation. So
the right thing to do is to note the problematic configuration if the
architecture does not select itself KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER; not to
enable it blindly.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/Kconfig b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
index ace72be98fb2..184dab4ee871 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/virt/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ config KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
bool

config KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
- select KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
+ depends on KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
bool

config KVM_PRIVATE_MEM
--
2.39.1