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

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Message-ID: <1326198129.3240.0.camel@offbook>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:22:09 +0100
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: unnecessary NX state assignment

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On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 15:06 +0100, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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;


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