linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: x86: MMU: Use clear_page() instead of init_shadow_page

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Message-Id: <20151218185449.3ba700d079a21ab9ff1508bb@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:54:49 +0900
From:	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	pbonzini@...hat.com
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: MMU: Use clear_page() instead of
 init_shadow_page_table()

Not just in order to clean up the code, but to make it faster by using
enhanced instructions: the initialization became 20-30% faster on our
testing machine.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@....ntt.co.jp>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index a1a3d19..7f5a82b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2041,14 +2041,6 @@ static void mmu_sync_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	}
 }
 
-static void init_shadow_page_table(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i)
-		sp->spt[i] = 0ull;
-}
-
 static void __clear_sp_write_flooding_count(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
 {
 	sp->write_flooding_count = 0;
@@ -2128,7 +2120,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		account_shadowed(vcpu->kvm, sp);
 	}
 	sp->mmu_valid_gen = vcpu->kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen;
-	init_shadow_page_table(sp);
+	clear_page(sp->spt);
 	trace_kvm_mmu_get_page(sp, true);
 	return sp;
 }
-- 
2.1.0



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