[PATCH 38/44] KVM: Disable CPU hotplug during hardware enabling
Huang, Kai
kai.huang at intel.com
Thu Nov 10 13:20:57 AEDT 2022
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 01:08 +0000, Huang, Kai wrote:
> > - WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> > + /*
> > + * Compatibility checks are done when loading KVM and when enabling
> > + * hardware, e.g. during CPU hotplug, to ensure all online CPUs are
> > + * compatible, i.e. KVM should never perform a compatibility check
> > on
> > + * an offline CPU.
> > + */
> > + WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled() && cpu_active(cpu));
>
> Comment doesn't match with the code?
>
> "KVM should never perform a compatibility check on on offline CPU" should be
> something like:
>
> WARN_ON(!cpu_online(cpu));
>
> So, should the comment be something like below?
>
> "KVM compatibility check happens before CPU is marked as active".
Also ignore this one as I only thought about hotplug case.
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