linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/10] kvm: Minor memory slot optimization

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Message-ID: <20121206222051.24968.86664.stgit@bling.home>
Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:20:51 -0700
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	mtosatti@...hat.com, gleb@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] kvm: Minor memory slot optimization

If a slot is removed or moved in the guest physical address space, we
first allocate and install a new slot array with the invalidated
entry.  The old array is then freed.  We then proceed to allocate yet
another slot array to install the permanent replacement.  Re-use the
original array when this occurs and avoid the extra kfree/kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |   21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index d27c135..24a67f0 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	unsigned long npages;
 	struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, *slot;
 	struct kvm_memory_slot old, new;
-	struct kvm_memslots *slots, *old_memslots;
+	struct kvm_memslots *slots = NULL, *old_memslots;
 
 	r = check_memory_region_flags(mem);
 	if (r)
@@ -827,18 +827,25 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 		 * 	- kvm_is_visible_gfn (mmu_check_roots)
 		 */
 		kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(kvm, slot);
-		kfree(old_memslots);
+		slots = old_memslots;
 	}
 
 	r = kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(kvm, &new, old, mem, user_alloc);
 	if (r)
-		goto out_free;
+		goto out_slots;
 
 	r = -ENOMEM;
-	slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
-			GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!slots)
-		goto out_free;
+	/*
+	 * We can re-use the old_memslots from above, the only difference
+	 * from the currently installed memslots is the invalid flag.  This
+	 * will get overwritten by update_memslots anyway.
+	 */
+	if (!slots) {
+		slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
+				GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!slots)
+			goto out_free;
+	}
 
 	/* map new memory slot into the iommu */
 	if (npages) {

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