2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Glauber Costa (cherry picked from 6f89724829cfd4ad6771a92fd4b8d59c90c7220c) Right now, KVM does not remove a slot when we do a register ioctl for size 0 (would be the expected behaviour). Instead, we only mark it as empty, but keep all bitmaps and allocated data structures present. It completely nullifies our chances of reusing that same slot again for mapping a different piece of memory. In this patch, we destroy rmaps, and vfree() the pointers that used to hold the dirty bitmap, rmap and lpage_info structures. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -821,7 +821,10 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm * goto out_free; } - kvm_free_physmem_slot(&old, &new); + kvm_free_physmem_slot(&old, npages ? &new : NULL); + /* Slot deletion case: we have to update the current slot */ + if (!npages) + *memslot = old; #ifdef CONFIG_DMAR /* map the pages in iommu page table */ r = kvm_iommu_map_pages(kvm, base_gfn, npages); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/