From: Avi Kivity Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:27:05 +0000 (+0300) Subject: KVM: MMU: Use __set_spte to link shadow pages X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=121eee97a7802acda8b78436cc53196e9885549f;p=linux-beck.git KVM: MMU: Use __set_spte to link shadow pages To avoid split accesses to 64 bit sptes on i386, use __set_spte() to link shadow pages together. (not technically required since shadow pages are __GFP_KERNEL, so upper 32 bits are always clear) Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index df3a7a79cce3..5a6019a534a3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ static void link_shadow_page(u64 *sptep, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp) spte = __pa(sp->spt) | PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_ACCESSED_MASK | PT_WRITABLE_MASK | PT_USER_MASK; - *sptep = spte; + __set_spte(sptep, spte); } static void kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children(struct kvm *kvm,