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authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>2015-12-18 18:54:49 +0900
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-12-18 19:07:45 +0100
commit774926641d1968a4839da3a6ac79d914742aac2f (patch)
treeb475eae976cf143389bf36b6fe541fbc816ac9f9
parent481d2bcc8454a44811db2bb68ac216fc6c5a23db (diff)
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KVM: x86: MMU: Use clear_page() instead of init_shadow_page_table()
Not just in order to clean up the code, but to make it faster by using enhanced instructions: the initialization became 20-30% faster on our testing machine. Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index a1a3d1907fdc..7f5a82bb61e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2041,14 +2041,6 @@ static void mmu_sync_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
}
}
-static void init_shadow_page_table(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
-{
- int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i)
- sp->spt[i] = 0ull;
-}
-
static void __clear_sp_write_flooding_count(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
{
sp->write_flooding_count = 0;
@@ -2128,7 +2120,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
account_shadowed(vcpu->kvm, sp);
}
sp->mmu_valid_gen = vcpu->kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen;
- init_shadow_page_table(sp);
+ clear_page(sp->spt);
trace_kvm_mmu_get_page(sp, true);
return sp;
}