[PATCH 29/37] KVM: MMU: drop zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc

[Avi Kivity]

From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>

Zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc is unnecessary since:

- Smaller areas are pre-allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc.
- Page pointed by ->spt is overwritten with prefetch_page
  and entries in page pointed by ->gfns are initialized
  before reading.

[avi: zeroing pages is unnecessary]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index aac0499..de9a9fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ static void *mmu_memory_cache_alloc(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc,
 
 	BUG_ON(!mc->nobjs);
 	p = mc->objects[--mc->nobjs];
-	memset(p, 0, size);
 	return p;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

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