[RFC PATCH v1 08/10] KVM: guest_memfd: Track amount of memory allocated on inode
From: Ackerley Tng
Date: Mon Feb 23 2026 - 02:07:27 EST
The guest memfd currently does not update the inode's i_blocks and i_bytes
count when memory is allocated or freed. Hence, st_blocks returned from
fstat() is always 0.
Introduce byte accounting for guest memfd inodes. When a new folio is
added to the filemap, add the folio's size using inode_add_bytes().
Conversely, when folios are truncated and removed from the mapping, sum
their sizes and subtract the total from the inode's byte count via
inode_sub_bytes().
With this change, stat.st_blocks for a guest_memfd will correctly report
the number of 512-byte blocks allocated to the file, consistent with other
memory-based filesystems like tmpfs.
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index e6c66ab7062b3..ef7f049dadace 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ static struct folio *__kvm_gmem_get_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index)
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
+ inode_add_bytes(inode, folio_size(folio));
+
return folio;
}
@@ -247,10 +249,14 @@ static void kvm_gmem_invalidate_end(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t start,
__kvm_gmem_invalidate_end(f, start, end);
}
-static void kvm_gmem_truncate_folio(struct folio *folio)
+static size_t kvm_gmem_truncate_folio(struct folio *folio)
{
+ size_t nr_bytes;
+
folio_lock(folio);
+ nr_bytes = folio_size(folio);
+
if (folio_mapped(folio))
unmap_mapping_folio(folio);
@@ -262,6 +268,8 @@ static void kvm_gmem_truncate_folio(struct folio *folio)
filemap_remove_folio(folio);
folio_unlock(folio);
+
+ return nr_bytes;
}
static void kvm_gmem_truncate_range(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t start,
@@ -269,6 +277,7 @@ static void kvm_gmem_truncate_range(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t start,
{
struct folio_batch fbatch;
+ size_t nr_bytes = 0;
pgoff_t next;
pgoff_t last;
int i;
@@ -279,11 +288,13 @@ static void kvm_gmem_truncate_range(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t start,
next = start;
while (filemap_get_folios(inode->i_mapping, &next, last, &fbatch)) {
for (i = 0; i < folio_batch_count(&fbatch); ++i)
- kvm_gmem_truncate_folio(fbatch.folios[i]);
+ nr_bytes += kvm_gmem_truncate_folio(fbatch.folios[i]);
folio_batch_release(&fbatch);
cond_resched();
}
+
+ inode_sub_bytes(inode, nr_bytes);
}
static long kvm_gmem_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
--
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