linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Don't return error on nested bitmap memory allocation failure

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Message-ID: <5540939F.70506@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:17:35 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>, Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	Wincy Van <fanwenyi0529@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Don't return error on nested bitmap memory
 allocation failure



On 29/04/2015 09:27, Nadav Amit wrote:
> free_page appears to check whether the address is zero before it actually
> frees the page. Perhaps it is better to leverage this behaviour to remove
> all the outX and simplify the code.

Agreed.  Regarding this patch, I agree with Jan.

Paolo
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