linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/30] KVM: MMU: remove assertion in kvm_mmu_alloc

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Message-Id: <1235785309-12835-18-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:41:36 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 17/30] KVM: MMU: remove assertion in kvm_mmu_alloc_page

From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>

The assertion no longer makes sense since we don't clear page tables on
allocation; instead we clear them during prefetch.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....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 c90b4b2..4a21b0f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -802,7 +802,6 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_alloc_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	set_page_private(virt_to_page(sp->spt), (unsigned long)sp);
 	list_add(&sp->link, &vcpu->kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sp->oos_link);
-	ASSERT(is_empty_shadow_page(sp->spt));
 	bitmap_zero(sp->slot_bitmap, KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS + KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS);
 	sp->multimapped = 0;
 	sp->parent_pte = parent_pte;
-- 
1.6.0.6

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