Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Yu Zhang <> | Subject | [PATCH] KVM: x86/MMU: Do not check unsync status for root SP. | Date | Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:21:00 +0800 |
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In shadow page table, only leaf SPs may be marked as unsync. And for non-leaf SPs, we use unsync_children to keep the number of the unsynced children. In kvm_mmu_sync_root(), sp->unsync shall always be zero for the root SP, hence no need to check it.
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c index 6d16481a..1a6bb03 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c @@ -3412,8 +3412,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_sync_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) * mmu_need_write_protect() describe what could go wrong if this * requirement isn't satisfied. */ - if (!smp_load_acquire(&sp->unsync) && - !smp_load_acquire(&sp->unsync_children)) + if (!smp_load_acquire(&sp->unsync_children)) return; spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock); -- 1.9.1
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