From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
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 <mtosa...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 10bdb2a..9d186fa 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;
}
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