[PATCH RFC 05/10] KVM: Refactor kvm_handle_gfn_range() to avoid conditional mmu_lock

From: Marco Elver

Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 12:36:23 EST


Refactor kvm_handle_gfn_range() to check for overlapping memslots
upfront via kvm_for_each_memslot_in_gfn_range() instead of tracking
found memslots inside the range iteration with a 'found_memslot' flag
and conditionally acquiring and releasing mmu_lock.

This simplifies the control flow by cleanly decoupling the search for
overlapping memslots from the subsequent walk, eliminating the
conditional locking and establishing a clean, unconditional lock scope
for mmu_lock, which subsequently enables Clang context analysis to
validate locking in this function.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index f7bfa2d32507..f86e690a1798 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2485,14 +2485,13 @@ bool kvm_range_has_memory_attributes(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t start, gfn_t end,
return true;
}

-static __always_inline void kvm_handle_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm,
- struct kvm_mmu_notifier_range *range)
+static __always_inline bool __kvm_handle_gfn_range_walk(struct kvm *kvm,
+ struct kvm_mmu_notifier_range *range)
{
struct kvm_gfn_range gfn_range;
struct kvm_memory_slot *slot;
struct kvm_memslots *slots;
struct kvm_memslot_iter iter;
- bool found_memslot = false;
bool ret = false;
int i;

@@ -2519,22 +2518,45 @@ static __always_inline void kvm_handle_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm,
if (gfn_range.start >= gfn_range.end)
continue;

- if (!found_memslot) {
- found_memslot = true;
- KVM_MMU_LOCK(kvm);
- if (!IS_KVM_NULL_FN(range->on_lock))
- range->on_lock(kvm);
- }
-
ret |= range->handler(kvm, &gfn_range);
}
}

+ return ret;
+}
+
+static __always_inline void kvm_handle_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm,
+ struct kvm_mmu_notifier_range *range)
+{
+ struct kvm_memslot_iter iter;
+ struct kvm_memslots *slots;
+ bool found_memslot = false;
+ bool ret;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < kvm_arch_nr_memslot_as_ids(kvm); i++) {
+ slots = __kvm_memslots(kvm, i);
+ kvm_for_each_memslot_in_gfn_range(&iter, slots, range->start, range->end) {
+ found_memslot = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (found_memslot)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (!found_memslot)
+ return;
+
+ KVM_MMU_LOCK(kvm);
+ if (!IS_KVM_NULL_FN(range->on_lock))
+ range->on_lock(kvm);
+
+ ret = __kvm_handle_gfn_range_walk(kvm, range);
+
if (range->flush_on_ret && ret)
kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);

- if (found_memslot)
- KVM_MMU_UNLOCK(kvm);
+ KVM_MMU_UNLOCK(kvm);
}

static bool kvm_pre_set_memory_attributes(struct kvm *kvm,
--
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