From 9903a927a4aea4b1ea42356a8453fca664df0b18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Tosatti Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:44:19 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: drop zeroing on mmu_memory_cache_alloc 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 Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) 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; } -- 1.8.2.3