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[PATCH v6 19/29] KVM: VMX: Mark vmx_l1d_should flush and vmx_l1d_flush_cond keys as allowed in .noinstr

From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-10-10 15:45:55
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml, loongarch, rcu
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

Later commits will cause objtool to warn about static keys being used in
.noinstr sections in order to safely defer instruction patching IPIs
targeted at NOHZ_FULL CPUs.

These keys are used in .noinstr code, and can be modified at runtime
(/proc/kernel/vmx* write). However it is not expected that they will be
flipped during latency-sensitive operations, and thus shouldn't be a source
of interference wrt the text patching IPI.

Mark it to let objtool know not to warn about it.

Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index aa157fe5b7b31..dce2bd7375ec8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -204,8 +204,15 @@ module_param(pt_mode, int, S_IRUGO);
 
 struct x86_pmu_lbr __ro_after_init vmx_lbr_caps;
 
-static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(vmx_l1d_should_flush);
-static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(vmx_l1d_flush_cond);
+/*
+ * Both of these static keys end up being used in .noinstr sections, however
+ * they are only modified:
+ * - at init
+ * - from a /proc/kernel/vmx* write
+ * thus during latency-sensitive operations they should remain stable.
+ */
+static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_NOINSTR(vmx_l1d_should_flush);
+static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_NOINSTR(vmx_l1d_flush_cond);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(vmx_l1d_flush_mutex);
 
 /* Storage for pre module init parameter parsing */
-- 
2.51.0
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