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authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>2012-05-20 04:15:07 (GMT)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-06-05 13:29:49 (GMT)
commitc1a7b32a14138f908df52d7c53b5ce3415ec6b50 (patch)
tree6f61d847e217212de98c8bdc9563ef09e25019e1 /arch
parent92eca8faad2d1b136c939bc122842dcdabd6ff46 (diff)
downloadlinux-c1a7b32a14138f908df52d7c53b5ce3415ec6b50.tar.xz
KVM: Avoid wasting pages for small lpage_info arrays
lpage_info is created for each large level even when the memory slot is not for RAM. This means that when we add one slot for a PCI device, we end up allocating at least KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES - 1 pages by vmalloc(). To make things worse, there is an increasing number of devices which would result in more pages being wasted this way. This patch mitigates this problem by using kvm_kvzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index be6d549..f12a524 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6304,7 +6304,7 @@ void kvm_arch_free_memslot(struct kvm_memory_slot *free,
for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES - 1; ++i) {
if (!dont || free->arch.lpage_info[i] != dont->arch.lpage_info[i]) {
- vfree(free->arch.lpage_info[i]);
+ kvm_kvfree(free->arch.lpage_info[i]);
free->arch.lpage_info[i] = NULL;
}
}
@@ -6323,7 +6323,7 @@ int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, unsigned long npages)
slot->base_gfn, level) + 1;
slot->arch.lpage_info[i] =
- vzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.lpage_info[i]));
+ kvm_kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.lpage_info[i]));
if (!slot->arch.lpage_info[i])
goto out_free;