Re: [PATCH V5 1/4] kvm: remove redundant reserved page check

From: Yi Zhang
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 03:52:46 EST


On 2018-09-08 at 02:03:28 +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> PageReserved() is already checked inside kvm_is_reserved_pfn(),
> remove it from kvm_set_pfn_dirty().
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <yu.c.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 ++------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 8b47507f..c44c406 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1690,12 +1690,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_release_pfn_dirty);
>
> void kvm_set_pfn_dirty(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
> {
> - if (!kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn)) {
> - struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> -
> - if (!PageReserved(page))
> - SetPageDirty(page);
> - }
> + if (!kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn))
> + SetPageDirty(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_pfn_dirty);
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
Hi Paolo,
We will remove the reserved flag in dax pages, then patch 2[3,4]/4 is
unnecessary, can we queue this 1/4 to next merge?

Thank you very much.
Yi