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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index fa3486d6407..dd20b199a7c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1593,6 +1593,15 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *shadow_pte, spte |= PT_WRITABLE_MASK; + /* + * Optimization: for pte sync, if spte was writable the hash + * lookup is unnecessary (and expensive). Write protection + * is responsibility of mmu_get_page / kvm_sync_page. + * Same reasoning can be applied to dirty page accounting. + */ + if (!can_unsync && is_writeble_pte(*shadow_pte)) + goto set_pte; + if (mmu_need_write_protect(vcpu, gfn, can_unsync)) { pgprintk("%s: found shadow page for %lx, marking ro\n", __func__, gfn); |