[PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: Add helpers to allocate memslot metadata
From: Fred Griffoul
Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 20:47:47 EST
From: Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Add and use helpers to allocate and free memslot metadata, i.e. the
dirty bitmap, rmaps, lpage_info and write-tracking arrays, in
anticipation of allocating small arrays with kvzalloc() instead of
vmalloc().
No functional change intended.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/arr1VgGZmgUmY4hc@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 6 +++---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +++++-----
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
index f12558dfcd81..f33547964b98 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ bool kvm_page_track_write_tracking_enabled(struct kvm *kvm)
void kvm_page_track_free_memslot(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
{
- vfree(slot->arch.gfn_write_track);
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_free(slot->arch.gfn_write_track);
slot->arch.gfn_write_track = NULL;
}
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ static int __kvm_page_track_write_tracking_alloc(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
const size_t size = sizeof(*slot->arch.gfn_write_track);
if (!slot->arch.gfn_write_track)
- slot->arch.gfn_write_track = __vcalloc(npages, size,
- GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ slot->arch.gfn_write_track =
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(npages, size);
return slot->arch.gfn_write_track ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 26e7beaff8a0..dc716ad83c8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -10146,7 +10146,7 @@ static void memslot_rmap_free(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
int i;
for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES; ++i) {
- vfree(slot->arch.rmap[i]);
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_free(slot->arch.rmap[i]);
slot->arch.rmap[i] = NULL;
}
}
@@ -10158,7 +10158,7 @@ void kvm_arch_free_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
memslot_rmap_free(slot);
for (i = 1; i < KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES; ++i) {
- vfree(slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1]);
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_free(slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1]);
slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1] = NULL;
}
@@ -10177,7 +10177,7 @@ int memslot_rmap_alloc(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, unsigned long npages)
if (slot->arch.rmap[i])
continue;
- slot->arch.rmap[i] = __vcalloc(lpages, sz, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ slot->arch.rmap[i] = kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(lpages, sz);
if (!slot->arch.rmap[i]) {
memslot_rmap_free(slot);
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -10214,7 +10214,7 @@ static int kvm_alloc_memslot_metadata(struct kvm *kvm,
lpages = __kvm_mmu_slot_lpages(slot, npages, level);
- linfo = __vcalloc(lpages, sizeof(*linfo), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ linfo = kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(lpages, sizeof(*linfo));
if (!linfo)
goto out_free;
@@ -10250,7 +10250,7 @@ static int kvm_alloc_memslot_metadata(struct kvm *kvm,
memslot_rmap_free(slot);
for (i = 1; i < KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES; ++i) {
- vfree(slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1]);
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_free(slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1]);
slot->arch.lpage_info[i - 1] = NULL;
}
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index e7fc94e2910a..11a6f501a78b 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -1253,6 +1253,8 @@ enum kvm_mr_change {
int kvm_set_internal_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
const struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2 *mem);
+void *kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(size_t n, size_t size);
+void kvm_memslot_metadata_free(void *p);
void kvm_arch_free_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot);
void kvm_arch_memslots_updated(struct kvm *kvm, u64 gen);
int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index cf4cb586f140..ebdf9308d06c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -941,12 +941,22 @@ static void kvm_destroy_pm_notifier(struct kvm *kvm)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER */
+void *kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+ return __vcalloc(n, size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+}
+
+void kvm_memslot_metadata_free(void *p)
+{
+ vfree(p);
+}
+
static void kvm_destroy_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
{
if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
return;
- vfree(memslot->dirty_bitmap);
+ kvm_memslot_metadata_free(memslot->dirty_bitmap);
memslot->dirty_bitmap = NULL;
}
@@ -1449,7 +1459,7 @@ static int kvm_alloc_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
{
unsigned long dirty_bytes = kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
- memslot->dirty_bitmap = __vcalloc(2, dirty_bytes, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ memslot->dirty_bitmap = kvm_memslot_metadata_alloc(2, dirty_bytes);
if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
return -ENOMEM;
base-commit: d21eef2084a9af87ac2a783bc7c2b175ba114e4e
--
2.47.3