KVM: x86/mmu: Remove spurious TLB flush from TDP MMU's change_pte() hook
Remove an unnecessary remote TLB flush from set_tdp_spte(), the TDP MMu's hook for handling change_pte() invocations from the MMU notifier. If the new host PTE is writable, the flush is completely redundant as there are no futher changes to the SPTE before the post-loop flush. If the host PTE is read-only, then the primary MMU is responsible for ensuring that the contents of the old and new pages are identical, thus it's safe to let the guest continue reading both the old and new pages. KVM must only ensure the old page cannot be referenced after returning from its callback; this is handled by the post-loop flush. Fixes: 1d8dd6b3 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support changed pte notifier in tdp MMU") Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210226010329.1766033-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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