linux-kernel - [PATCH 26/48] KVM: VMX: Avoid duplicate ept tlb flush when setting cr3

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Date:	Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:29:46 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 26/48] KVM: VMX: Avoid duplicate ept tlb flush when setting cr3

vmx_set_cr3() will call vmx_tlb_flush(), which will flush the ept context.
So there is no need to call ept_sync_context() explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index c14bffc..ea0e1d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -1651,7 +1651,6 @@ static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3)
 	if (enable_ept) {
 		eptp = construct_eptp(cr3);
 		vmcs_write64(EPT_POINTER, eptp);
-		ept_sync_context(eptp);
 		ept_load_pdptrs(vcpu);
 		guest_cr3 = is_paging(vcpu) ? vcpu->arch.cr3 :
 			VMX_EPT_IDENTITY_PAGETABLE_ADDR;
-- 
1.6.3.3

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