[PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: Fold kvm_arch_sched_in() into kvm_arch_vcpu_load()

[Sean Christopherson]

On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:40:07 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Drop kvm_arch_sched_in() and instead add and use kvm_vcpu.scheduled_out
> to communicate to kvm_arch_vcpu_load() that the vCPU is being scheduling
> back in.
> 
> While fiddling with an idea for optimizing state management on AMD CPUs,
> I wanted to skip re-saving certain host state when a vCPU is scheduled back
> in, as the state (theoretically) shouldn't change for the task while it's
> scheduled out.  Actually doing that was annoying and unnecessarily brittle
> due to having a separate API for the kvm_sched_in() case (the state save
> needed to be in kvm_arch_vcpu_load() for the common path).
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 generic, thanks!

[1/6] KVM: Add a flag to track if a loaded vCPU is scheduled out
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/d1ae567fb8b5
[2/6] KVM: VMX: Move PLE grow/shrink helpers above vmx_vcpu_load()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/5d9c07febb86
[3/6] KVM: x86: Fold kvm_arch_sched_in() into kvm_arch_vcpu_load()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/8fbb696a8f53
[4/6] KVM: Delete the now unused kvm_arch_sched_in()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/2a27c4314007
[5/6] KVM: x86: Unconditionally set l1tf_flush_l1d during vCPU load
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/ef2e18ef3750
[6/6] KVM: x86: Drop now-superflous setting of l1tf_flush_l1d in vcpu_run()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/3dee3b187499

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