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Message-ID: <4EEB1AE2.1000300@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:18:10 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] KVM: MMU: remove the redundant get_written_sptes

get_written_sptes is called twice in kvm_mmu_pte_write, one of them can be
removed

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 16e0642..5d0f0e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3575,7 +3575,7 @@ static u64 mmu_pte_write_fetch_gpte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t *gpa,
  * If we're seeing too many writes to a page, it may no longer be a page table,
  * or we may be forking, in which case it is better to unmap the page.
  */
-static bool detect_write_flooding(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, u64 *spte)
+static bool detect_write_flooding(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Skip write-flooding detected for the sp whose level is 1, because
@@ -3684,10 +3684,8 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,

 	mask.cr0_wp = mask.cr4_pae = mask.nxe = 1;
 	for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(vcpu->kvm, sp, gfn, node) {
-		spte = get_written_sptes(sp, gpa, &npte);
-
 		if (detect_write_misaligned(sp, gpa, bytes) ||
-		      detect_write_flooding(sp, spte)) {
+		      detect_write_flooding(sp)) {
 			zap_page |= !!kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(vcpu->kvm, sp,
 						     &invalid_list);
 			++vcpu->kvm->stat.mmu_flooded;
-- 
1.7.7.4

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