Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] KVM: SVM: Remove wbinvd in sev_vm_destroy()

[Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>]

On 1/27/25 19:53, Zheyun Shen wrote:
> Before sev_vm_destroy() is called, kvm_arch_guest_memory_reclaimed()
> has been called for SEV and SEV-ES and kvm_arch_gmem_invalidate()
> has been called for SEV-SNP. These functions have already handled
> flushing the memory. Therefore, this wbinvd_on_all_cpus() can
> simply be dropped.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zheyun Shen <szy0127@sjtu.edu.cn>

Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
> index 943bd074a..1ce67de9d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
> @@ -2899,12 +2899,6 @@ void sev_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Ensure that all guest tagged cache entries are flushed before
> -	 * releasing the pages back to the system for use. CLFLUSH will
> -	 * not do this, so issue a WBINVD.
> -	 */
> -	wbinvd_on_all_cpus();
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * if userspace was terminated before unregistering the memory regions