Re: [PATCH 2/7] KVM: mmu: remove uninteresting MMU "new_cr3" callbacks

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 03/10/2013 12:23, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>> > The commit message mentioned that "mmu_free_roots() is somewhat of an overkill,
>> > but fixing that is more complicated and will be done after this minimal fix".
>> > One year has passed, and no one really felt the need to do a different fix.
>> > Wrap the call with a kvm_mmu_new_cr3 function for clarity, but remove the
>> > callback.
>> > 
> Well the reason for it is because whoever knew about the problem found
> other things to do meanwhile :) But do we really need something smarter
> here anyway? The situation described in e676505 should be extremely rare
> even on non unrestricted guest HW and it happens during slow emulation
> anyway, so optimization will likely not be noticeable.

Yeah, and it's not like code that runs without paging will move to cr3
in a hot loop. :)

Paolo
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