Re: [PATCH v5.5 20/30] KVM: x86: Use nr_memslot_pages to avoid traversing the memslots array

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On 04.11.2021 01:25, Sean Christopherson wrote:
From: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>

There is no point in recalculating from scratch the total number of pages
in all memslots each time a memslot is created or deleted.  Use KVM's
cached nr_memslot_pages to compute the default max number of MMU pages.

Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>
[sean: use common KVM field and rework changelog accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 -
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 24 ------------------------
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 11 ++++++++---
  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

(..)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -11837,9 +11837,14 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
  				enum kvm_mr_change change)
  {
  	if (!kvm->arch.n_requested_mmu_pages &&
-	    (change == KVM_MR_CREATE || change == KVM_MR_DELETE))
-		kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages(kvm,
-				kvm_mmu_calculate_default_mmu_pages(kvm));
+	    (change == KVM_MR_CREATE || change == KVM_MR_DELETE)) {
+		unsigned long nr_mmu_pages;
+
+		nr_mmu_pages = kvm->nr_memslot_pages * KVM_PERMILLE_MMU_PAGES;

Unfortunately, even if kvm->nr_memslot_pages is capped at ULONG_MAX then
this value multiplied by 20 can still overflow an unsigned long variable.

Thanks,
Maciej



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