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Message-Id: <1242638585-18470-20-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2009 12:22:41 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 19/43] KVM: MMU: remove call to kvm_mmu_pte_write from walk_addr

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

There is no reason to update the shadow pte here because the guest pte
is only changed to dirty state.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 6bd7020..855eb71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -209,7 +209,6 @@ walk:
 		if (ret)
 			goto walk;
 		pte |= PT_DIRTY_MASK;
-		kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, pte_gpa, (u8 *)&pte, sizeof(pte), 0);
 		walker->ptes[walker->level - 1] = pte;
 	}
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

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