linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: MMU: unnecessary NX state assignment

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:06:18 +0100
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: unnecessary NX state assignment

From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>

We can remove the first ->nx state assignment since it is assigned afterwards anyways.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
---
 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 f1b36cf..efc0dd2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3320,7 +3320,6 @@ static int init_kvm_tdp_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	context->get_cr3 = get_cr3;
 	context->get_pdptr = kvm_pdptr_read;
 	context->inject_page_fault = kvm_inject_page_fault;
-	context->nx = is_nx(vcpu);
 
 	if (!is_paging(vcpu)) {
 		context->nx = false;
-- 
1.7.4.1



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