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authorYosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>2026-03-02 15:42:49 +0000
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2026-03-03 12:26:12 -0800
commit43e41846ac7ebee529c3684b5726d71224f4fbdd (patch)
tree21ca1a529d29d9ffcf056b37ffc8f9cc94d657f3 /tools/perf/scripts/python
parent690dc03859e7907bc995f389618c748619559477 (diff)
KVM: x86: Drop redundant call to kvm_deliver_exception_payload()
In kvm_check_and_inject_events(), kvm_deliver_exception_payload() is called for pending #DB exceptions. However, shortly after, the per-vendor inject_exception callbacks are made. Both vmx_inject_exception() and svm_inject_exception() unconditionally call kvm_deliver_exception_payload(), so the call in kvm_check_and_inject_events() is redundant. Note that the extra call for pending #DB exceptions is harmless, as kvm_deliver_exception_payload() clears exception.has_payload after the first call. The call in kvm_check_and_inject_events() was added in commit f10c729ff965 ("kvm: vmx: Defer setting of DR6 until #DB delivery"). At that point, the call was likely needed because svm_queue_exception() checked whether an exception for L2 is intercepted by L1 before calling kvm_deliver_exception_payload(), as SVM did not have a check_nested_events callback. Since DR6 is updated before the #DB intercept in SVM (unlike VMX), it was necessary to deliver the DR6 payload before calling svm_queue_exception(). After that, commit 7c86663b68ba ("KVM: nSVM: inject exceptions via svm_check_nested_events") added a check_nested_events callback for SVM, which checked for L1 intercepts for L2's exceptions, and delivered the the payload appropriately before the intercept. At that point, svm_queue_exception() started calling kvm_deliver_exception_payload() unconditionally, and the call to kvm_deliver_exception_payload() from its caller became redundant. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302154249.784529-1-yosry@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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