[PATCH v2 10/26] KVM: x86/mmu: Use common code to free kvm_mmu_page structs

David Matlack dmatlack at google.com
Tue Mar 22 15:33:18 PDT 2022


On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:23 AM Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:25:12AM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> >  static void tdp_mmu_free_sp(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> >  {
> > -     free_page((unsigned long)sp->spt);
> > -     kmem_cache_free(mmu_page_header_cache, sp);
> > +     kvm_mmu_free_shadow_page(sp);
> >  }
>
> Perhaps tdp_mmu_free_sp() can be dropped altogether with this?

It certainly can but I prefer to keep it for 2 reasons:
 - Smaller diff.
 - It mirrors tdp_mmu_alloc_sp(), which I prefer to keep as well but
I'll explain that in the next patch.

>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
>
> --
> Peter Xu
>



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