It seems like you all are busy now, so I've made this patch set so that mechanical and trivial changes come before. V2->V3: Patch 01: Rebased and moved here. Updated stale comments. We may also want to use a union, inside the struct, to eliminate casting to (u64 *) type when spte is in the head in the future. Patch 02-05: No change. About patch 03: There was a comment on the usage of braces for a single line else-if statement from Xiao. As I answered, checkpatch did not complain about this, and when the corresponding if block has multiple lines, some developers prefer/recommend this style. Feel free to modify it if you don't like it. Patch 06: Changed WARN_ON to BUG_ON as Marcelo suggested. Patch 07: Removed unnecessary zero-initialization of sp->parent_ptes as Xiao suggested. I think these seven patches are ready for inclusion. Patch 08-10: No change now, though there were a few comments. This patch set is not intended to optimize anything, so these patches try to keep the way mark_unsync() gets called as much as possible: the only changes are when this gets called for the new parent_pte and when mmu_page_add_parent_pte() gets called. For these three, I'm not sure what we should do now, still RFC? We can also consider other approaches, e.g. moving link_shadow_page() in the kvm_get_mmu_page() as Paolo suggested before. Takuya Takuya Yoshikawa (10): [01] KVM: x86: MMU: Encapsulate the type of rmap-chain head in a new struct [02] KVM: x86: MMU: Remove unused parameter of __direct_map() [03] KVM: x86: MMU: Add helper function to clear a bit in unsync child bitmap [04] KVM: x86: MMU: Make mmu_set_spte() return emulate value [05] KVM: x86: MMU: Remove is_rmap_spte() and use is_shadow_present_pte() [06] KVM: x86: MMU: Consolidate BUG_ON checks for reverse-mapped sptes [07] KVM: x86: MMU: Move initialization of parent_ptes out from kvm_mmu_alloc_page() [08] KVM: x86: MMU: Use for_each_rmap_spte macro instead of pte_list_walk() [09] KVM: x86: MMU: Move parent_pte handling from kvm_mmu_get_page() to link_shadow_page() [10] KVM: x86: MMU: Remove unused parameter parent_pte from kvm_mmu_get_page() Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 8 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 370 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- arch/x86/kvm/mmu_audit.c | 15 +- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 20 +-- 5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 216 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html