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[08/35] KVM: PPC: Don't flush PTEs on NX/RO hit

Message ID 1283221937-21006-9-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de (mailing list archive)
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Alexander Graf Aug. 31, 2010, 2:31 a.m. UTC
When hitting a no-execute or read-only data/inst storage interrupt we were
flushing the respective PTE so we're sure it gets properly overwritten next.

According to the spec, this is unnecessary though. The guest issues a tlbie
anyways, so we're safe to just keep the PTE around and have it manually removed
from the guest, saving us a flush.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
index 54ca578..2fb528f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
@@ -887,7 +887,6 @@  int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 			vcpu->arch.shared->msr |=
 				to_svcpu(vcpu)->shadow_srr1 & 0x58000000;
 			kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu, exit_nr);
-			kvmppc_mmu_pte_flush(vcpu, kvmppc_get_pc(vcpu), ~0xFFFUL);
 			r = RESUME_GUEST;
 		}
 		break;
@@ -913,7 +912,6 @@  int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 			vcpu->arch.shared->dar = dar;
 			vcpu->arch.shared->dsisr = to_svcpu(vcpu)->fault_dsisr;
 			kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu, exit_nr);
-			kvmppc_mmu_pte_flush(vcpu, dar, ~0xFFFUL);
 			r = RESUME_GUEST;
 		}
 		break;