Revert "KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible"

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Now that KVM uses kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() to check for an existing vCPU ID
before doing any meaningful work, which was made possible by holding
kvm->lock for the entirety of vCPU creation, revert the now-redundant
"early" vCPU ID tracking.  The claims about the impact of kvm->vcpu_ids on
the memory footprint were a wee bit wrong: the worst case scenario isn't
256 bytes per VM, it's 256 "unsigned longs" per VM, i.e. 2048 bytes per VM.

Increasing the size of "struct kvm" by 2048 nearly doubled the total size
on many architectures, and tripped x86's KVM_SANITY_CHECK_VM_STRUCT_SIZE,
which was added to detect this *exact* scenario, where a single change
significantly increased the size of "struct kvm".  I.e. attempting to build
KVM with CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=n fails on x86 (the build failures got missed
because all build bots apparently test only CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y kernels,
and maintainers' test flows were similarly lacking).

This reverts commit 97d65b544f.

Fixes: 97d65b544f ("KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible")
Reported-by: Jean-Christophe Guillain <jean-christophe@guillain.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/56a4bc35ee605588b7cc36c8e45c12b5f3b506cb.camel@guillain.net
Reported-by: Paweł S <spawel523@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABD%3DWFOS4j4hDv%2BpW-eEM9HAM2q2GY_iYdAG%2BqvYcUEinUrcQQ@mail.gmail.com
Tested-by: Jean-Christophe Guillain <jean-christophe@guillain.net>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20260921174445.911676-7-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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Sean Christopherson 2026-09-21 10:44:44 -07:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini

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