linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM : remove redundant assignment of var new

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:41:50 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>, joro@...tes.org,
        rkrcmar@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingfangsen@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM : remove redundant assignment of var new_entry

On 12/08/19 04:33, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> new_entry is reassigned a new value next line. So
> it's redundant and remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index d685491fce4d..e3d3b2128f2b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -1714,7 +1714,6 @@ static int avic_init_backing_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	if (!entry)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	new_entry = READ_ONCE(*entry);
>  	new_entry = __sme_set((page_to_phys(svm->avic_backing_page) &
>  			      AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_BACKING_PAGE_MASK) |
>  			      AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_VALID_MASK);
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo