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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:57:10 -0800
From: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.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>,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't redundantly clear TDP MMU pt memory
The KVM MMU caches already guarantee that shadow page table memory will
be zeroed, so there is no reason to re-zero the page in the TDP MMU page
fault handler.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index b83a6a3ad29c..3828c0e83466 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -655,7 +655,6 @@ int kvm_tdp_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, u32 error_code,
sp = alloc_tdp_mmu_page(vcpu, iter.gfn, iter.level);
list_add(&sp->link, &vcpu->kvm->arch.tdp_mmu_pages);
child_pt = sp->spt;
- clear_page(child_pt);
new_spte = make_nonleaf_spte(child_pt,
!shadow_accessed_mask);
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog
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