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authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2007-07-23 18:33:14 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2007-07-23 18:33:14 +0300
commitb41e5014dd8712e8de2b656617f7a7a158cd992a (patch)
treec4dbd991cf4ae0deced60bd634ba834059e6fd37
parent769c5c41c296e64444ee10b8f9d4aa2973a50883 (diff)
Revert "KVM: Avoid useless memory write when possible"kvm-33
This reverts commit 8a1449563b3e5ede56b28cc977c8da22a17cdf51. While it does save useless updates, it (probably) defeats the fork detector, causing a massive performance loss. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7c9bd72f74d5..6e11871f5319 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1085,10 +1085,8 @@ static int emulator_write_phys(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
return 0;
mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT);
virt = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
- if (memcmp(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes)) {
- kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, virt + offset, val, bytes);
- memcpy(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes);
- }
+ kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, virt + offset, val, bytes);
+ memcpy(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes);
kunmap_atomic(virt, KM_USER0);
return 1;
}