linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] KVM: MMU: introduce FNAME(prefetch

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Message-ID: <5076C5D3.6020104@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:12:51 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>
To:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
CC:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] KVM: MMU: introduce FNAME(prefetch_gpte)

On 10/10/2012 11:21 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>>  	pgprintk("%s: gpte %llx spte %p\n", __func__, (u64)gpte, spte);
>> +
>> +	gfn = gpte_to_gfn(gpte);
>>  	pte_access = sp->role.access & gpte_access(vcpu, gpte);
>>  	protect_clean_gpte(&pte_access, gpte);
>> -	pfn = gfn_to_pfn_atomic(vcpu->kvm, gpte_to_gfn(gpte));
>> +	pfn = pte_prefetch_gfn_to_pfn(vcpu, gfn,
>> +			no_dirty_log && (pte_access & ACC_WRITE_MASK));
> 
> Is this a bugfix?

No. It is a cleanup.

Actually, pte_prefetch_gfn_to_pfn(vcpu, gfn, false) is the same as
gfn_to_pfn_atomic

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