Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:19 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/23] KVM: MMU: pass uses_nx directly to reset_shadow_zero_bits_mask | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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On 2/10/22 01:30, Sean Christopherson wrote: > There may not be a functional change, but it drops an optimization and contributes > to making future code/patches more fragile due to making it harder to understand > the relationship between shadow_mmu_init_context() and __kvm_mmu_new_pgd().
Fair enough, I'll drop this patch.
Regarding the relationship between shadow_mmu_init_context() and kvm_mmu_new_pgd(), it's a lot more subtle than it looks. Please take a look first at the optimization series, since it removes that subtlety.
Paolo
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