linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: VMX: remove duplicated segment cache clear

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:15:18 -0500
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <pbonzini@...hat.com>, <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>, <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        <wanpengli@...cent.com>, <jmattson@...gle.com>, <joro@...tes.org>,
        <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <bp@...en8.de>,
        <hpa@...or.com>
CC:     <linmiaohe@...wei.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: remove duplicated segment cache clear

vmx_set_segment() clears segment cache unconditionally, so we should not
clear it again by calling vmx_segment_cache_clear().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index b5a0c2e05825..b32236e6b513 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2688,8 +2688,6 @@ static void enter_pmode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	vmx->rmode.vm86_active = 0;
 
-	vmx_segment_cache_clear(vmx);
-
 	vmx_set_segment(vcpu, &vmx->rmode.segs[VCPU_SREG_TR], VCPU_SREG_TR);
 
 	flags = vmcs_readl(GUEST_RFLAGS);
-- 
2.19.1