On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> VHE kernels run completely in EL2 and therefore don't have a notion of
> kernel and hyp addresses, they are all just kernel addresses.  Therefore
> don't call kern_hyp_va() in the VHE switch function.

Isn't this an example of avoidable forkage?

This looks like it's probably just saving a couple of nops, though I may
have misunderstood how this interfacts with alternatives.

Cheers
---Dave

> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.d...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> index accfe9a016f9..05fba76ec918 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> @@ -345,9 +345,7 @@ int kvm_vcpu_run_vhe(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>       struct kvm_cpu_context *guest_ctxt;
>       u64 exit_code;
>  
> -     vcpu = kern_hyp_va(vcpu);
> -
> -     host_ctxt = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context);
> +     host_ctxt = vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context;
>       host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu = vcpu;
>       guest_ctxt = &vcpu->arch.ctxt;
>  
> -- 
> 2.14.2
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