kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:08:34 +0000 (05:08 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:48:07 +0000 (12:48 +0100)
commit4ec6e863625625a54f527464ab91ce1a1cb16c42
treef81e04d7e244705057af567bbee4fc58a9db8d0b
parent446f3dc8cc0af59259c6c8b898726fae7ed2c055
kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()

It allows us to update some status or field of a structure partially.

We can also save a kvm_read_guest_cached() call if we just update one
fild of the struct regardless of its current value.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
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Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-8-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/kvm_host.h
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c