linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/43] KVM: SVM: Drop a redundant init_vmcb() from svm_create

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Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 22:32:54 -0700
From:   Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/43] KVM: SVM: Drop a redundant init_vmcb() from svm_create_vcpu()

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:48 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Drop an extra init_vmcb() from svm_create_vcpu(), svm_vcpu_reset() is
> guaranteed to call init_vmcb() and there are no consumers of the VMCB
> data between ->vcpu_create() and ->vcpu_reset().  Keep the call to
> svm_switch_vmcb() as sev_es_create_vcpu() touches the current VMCB, but
> hoist it up a few lines to associate the switch with the allocation of
> vmcb01.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>