linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/22] kvm: mmu: Factor out allocating a new tdp_mmu

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Message-ID: <CANgfPd8A4VS0Mq-QR7wgzNDMd_UYwxja=Vn7oW0KMoce8RXVww@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:53:49 -0700
From:   Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@...gle.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@...il.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/22] kvm: mmu: Factor out allocating a new tdp_mmu_page

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:22 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/09/20 23:22, Ben Gardon wrote:
> > Move the code to allocate a struct kvm_mmu_page for the TDP MMU out of the
> > root allocation code to support allocating a struct kvm_mmu_page for every
> > page of page table memory used by the TDP MMU, in the next commit.
> >
> > Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
> > machine. This series introduced no new failures.
> >
> > This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
> >       https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
>
> Maybe worth squashing into the earlier patch.
>
> Paolo
>

That sounds good to me. Definitely reduces churn in the series.