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

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 10.06.21 18:49, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:56:58 +0200
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> ^ here
>
> > > 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?
>
> no, as explained above

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>