Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:43:49 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: MMU: remove 'clear_unsync' parameter
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:42:01PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 12:49 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 			    bool clear_unsync)
> >> +static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> >>  {
> >>  	int i, offset, nr_present;
> >>  	bool host_writable;
> >> @@ -781,7 +780,7 @@ static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
> >>  			u64 nonpresent;
> >>  
> >>  			if (rsvd_bits_set || is_present_gpte(gpte) ||
> >> -			      !clear_unsync)
> >> +			      sp->unsync)
> >>  				nonpresent = shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte;
> >>  			else
> >>  				nonpresent = shadow_notrap_nonpresent_pte;
> > 
> > Its better to keep this explicit as a parameter. 
> > 
> 
> But after patch 6 (KVM: MMU: cleanup update_pte, pte_prefetch and sync_page functions),
> this parameter is not used anymore... i don't have strong opinion on it :-)

On a second thought, using sp->unsync is fine.
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