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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:26:52 +0200 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: kvm@...r.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 29/37] KVM: MMU: drop zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com> Zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc is unnecessary since: - Smaller areas are pre-allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc. - Page pointed by ->spt is overwritten with prefetch_page and entries in page pointed by ->gfns are initialized before reading. [avi: zeroing pages is unnecessary] Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index aac0499..de9a9fb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ static void *mmu_memory_cache_alloc(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc, BUG_ON(!mc->nobjs); p = mc->objects[--mc->nobjs]; - memset(p, 0, size); return p; } -- 1.6.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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