Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: s390: fix for hugepage vmalloc

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 10.06.21 17:42, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> The Create Secure Configuration Ultravisor Call does not support using
> large pages for the virtual memory area. This is a hardware limitation.
>
> This patch replaces the vzalloc call with an almost equivalent call to
> the newly introduced vmalloc_no_huge function, which guarantees that
> only small pages will be used for the backing.
>
> The new call will not clear the allocated memory, but that has never
> been an actual requirement.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/s390/kvm/pv.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c b/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
> index 813b6e93dc83..ad7c6d7cc90b 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static int kvm_s390_pv_alloc_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>   	/* Allocate variable storage */
>   	vlen = ALIGN(virt * ((npages * PAGE_SIZE) / HPAGE_SIZE), PAGE_SIZE);
>   	vlen += uv_info.guest_virt_base_stor_len;
> -	kvm->arch.pv.stor_var = vzalloc(vlen);
> +	kvm->arch.pv.stor_var = vmalloc_no_huge(vlen);

dont we need a memset now?

>   	if (!kvm->arch.pv.stor_var)
>   		goto out_err;
>   	return 0;