linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/21] KVM: MIPS: Account pages used for GPA page tables

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Message-ID: <CAAhV-H6eyj2ihKAygqkCvgfCnBnAhx7Eu6Vooh2FHqQdRcdhrA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Jun 2020 16:56:55 +0800
From:   Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...il.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        "open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/21] KVM: MIPS: Account pages used for GPA page tables

Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:40 AM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT instead of GFP_KERNEL when allocating pages for
> the the GPA page tables.  The primary motivation for accounting the
> allocations is to align with the common KVM memory cache helpers in
> preparation for moving to the common implementation in a future patch.
> The actual accounting is a bonus side effect.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mmu.c
> index 94562c54b930..41a4a063a730 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache, int min)
>         if (cache->nobjs >= min)
>                 return 0;
>         while (cache->nobjs < ARRAY_SIZE(cache->objects)) {
> -               page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> +               page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>                 if (!page)
>                         return -ENOMEM;
>                 cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page;
> --
> 2.26.0
>