On Mon, Jun 06, 2022, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Add a helper to account pages used by KVM for page tables in secondary
> pagetable stats. This function will be used by subsequent patches in
> different archs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 883e86ec8e8c4..645585f3a4bed 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -2246,6 +2246,15 @@ static inline void kvm_handle_signal_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK */
>
> +/*
> + * If nr > 1, we assume virt is the address of the first page of a block of
But what if @nr is -2, which is technically less than 1? :-)
> + * pages that were allocated together (i.e accounted together).
Don't document assumptions, document the rules. And avoid "we", pronouns are
ambiguous, e.g. is "we" the author, or KVM, or something else entirely?
/*
* If more than one page is being (un)accounted, @virt must be the address of
* the first page of a block of pages what were allocated together.
*/
> + */
> +static inline void kvm_account_pgtable_pages(void *virt, int nr)
> +{
> + mod_lruvec_page_state(virt_to_page(virt), NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, nr);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * This defines how many reserved entries we want to keep before we
> * kick the vcpu to the userspace to avoid dirty ring full. This
> --
> 2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog
>
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