[PATCH 4/4] KVM: s390: Replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() for sie_page2 and CMMA

From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 02:17:43 EST


kvm_arch_init_vm() allocates struct sie_page2 that holds the facility
list and the crypto control block of a VM and kvm_s390_vcpu_setup_cmma()
allocates the CMMA collaborative memory management block referenced by
the SIE control block. Both are passed to the hardware as physical
addresses and must be page aligned.

kmalloc() guarantees that a power of two sized allocation is aligned to
its size, so a PAGE_SIZE allocation is page aligned as well.

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them to go directly to the page allocator.

kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and
kfree() does not need to know the size of the freed object.

Performance difference between kmalloc() and __get_free_pages() is not
measurable as both allocators take an object/page from a per-CPU list for
fast path allocations.

For the slow path the performance is anyway determined by the amount of
reclaim involved rather than by what allocator is used.

The sie_page allocated in kvm_arch_vcpu_create() is left alone because it
is mapped to userspace with virt_to_page() in kvm_arch_vcpu_fault() and
therefore really needs a struct page.

Replace use of get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() and free_page() with
kfree().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@xxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: copilot:claude-opus
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c
index b0839e887221e..8ec505060f8c0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c
@@ -3273,8 +3273,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
goto out_err;

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct sie_page2) != 4096);
- kvm->arch.sie_page2 =
- (struct sie_page2 *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | GFP_DMA);
+ kvm->arch.sie_page2 = kzalloc_obj(*kvm->arch.sie_page2,
+ GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | GFP_DMA);
if (!kvm->arch.sie_page2)
goto out_err;

@@ -3369,7 +3369,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)

return 0;
out_err:
- free_page((unsigned long)kvm->arch.sie_page2);
+ kfree(kvm->arch.sie_page2);
debug_unregister(kvm->arch.dbf);
sca_dispose(kvm);
KVM_EVENT(3, "creation of vm failed: %d", rc);
@@ -3427,7 +3427,7 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
mmu_notifier_unregister(&kvm->arch.pv.mmu_notifier, kvm->mm);

debug_unregister(kvm->arch.dbf);
- free_page((unsigned long)kvm->arch.sie_page2);
+ kfree(kvm->arch.sie_page2);
kvm_s390_destroy_adapters(kvm);
kvm_s390_clear_float_irqs(kvm);
kvm_s390_vsie_destroy(kvm);
@@ -3657,13 +3657,13 @@ static void kvm_s390_vcpu_crypto_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
void kvm_s390_vcpu_unsetup_cmma(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
if (vcpu->arch.sie_block->cbrlo)
- free_page((unsigned long)phys_to_virt(vcpu->arch.sie_block->cbrlo));
+ kfree(phys_to_virt(vcpu->arch.sie_block->cbrlo));
vcpu->arch.sie_block->cbrlo = 0;
}

int kvm_s390_vcpu_setup_cmma(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- void *cbrlo_page = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ void *cbrlo_page = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);

if (!cbrlo_page)
return -ENOMEM;

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