linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] KVM: Pre-allocate cpumasks for kvm_make_all_cpus_request

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Date:   Fri, 3 Sep 2021 14:54:48 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] KVM: Pre-allocate cpumasks for
 kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except()

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> writes:
> >> @@ -5581,9 +5583,15 @@ int kvm_init(void *opaque, unsigned vcpu_size, unsigned vcpu_align,
> >>  		goto out_free_3;
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> >> +		if (!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&per_cpu(cpu_kick_mask, cpu),
> >> +					    GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu)))
> >> +			goto out_free_4;
> >
> > 'r' needs to be explicitly set to -EFAULT, e.g. in the current code it's
> > guaranteed to be 0 here.
> 
> Oops, yes. Any particular reason to avoid -ENOMEM? (hope not, will use
> this in v5)

Huh.  Yes, -ENOMEM.  I have no idea why I typed -EFAULT.