[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't zero-allocate page table used for splitting a hugepage

From: Sean Christopherson

Date: Wed Feb 18 2026 - 16:08:36 EST


When splitting hugepages in the TDP MMU, don't zero the new page table on
allocation since tdp_mmu_split_huge_page() is guaranteed to write every
entry and thus every byte.

Unless someone peeks at the memory between allocating the page table and
writing the child SPTEs, no functional change intended.

Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index 9c26038f6b77..7b1102d26f9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *tdp_mmu_alloc_sp_for_split(void)
if (!sp)
return NULL;

- sp->spt = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ sp->spt = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!sp->spt) {
kmem_cache_free(mmu_page_header_cache, sp);
return NULL;

base-commit: 183bb0ce8c77b0fd1fb25874112bc8751a461e49
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2.53.0.345.g96ddfc5eaa-goog