From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/12] KVM: MMU: unify the code of walking pte list
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:01:55 +0800
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Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi.kivity@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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On 01/27/2013 09:28 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:

>>
>> @@ -1256,19 +1243,18 @@ static int kvm_set_pte_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp,
>>
>>  		if (pte_write(*ptep)) {
>>  			drop_spte(kvm, sptep);
>> -			sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter);
>> -		} else {
>> -			new_spte = *sptep & ~PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK;
>> -			new_spte |= (u64)new_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +			goto restart;
> I do not like this "goto restart" pattern throughout this patch. Follow up
> patch gets rid of most of them, so they are tolerable as a temporary solution
> here, but this one stays. What about moving pte_write(*ptep) outside
> for_each_spte_in_rmap() loop like that:
> 
> if (pte_write(*ptep))
> 	need_flush = kvm_unmap_rmapp();
> else
> 	for_each_spte_in_rmap() {
> 	}

Nice. Will do.