Re: [PATCH v2 19/26] KVM: x86/mmu: Refactor drop_large_spte()

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:25:21AM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> drop_large_spte() drops a large SPTE if it exists and then flushes TLBs.
> Its helper function, __drop_large_spte(), does the drop without the
> flush.
> 
> In preparation for eager page splitting, which will need to sometimes
> flush when dropping large SPTEs (and sometimes not), push the flushing
> logic down into __drop_large_spte() and add a bool parameter to control
> it.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>

The new helpers looks much better indeed..

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Peter Xu

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