On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ upstream commit 744961341d472db6272ed9b42319a90f5a2aa7c4 ] > If I first apply the following commits: f2a25160887e KVM: remove redundant assignments in __kvm_set_memory_region f2a81036516e kvm: commonize allocation of the new memory slots then 744961341d47 is a clean cherry-pick for the 3.16 kernel. If you have no objections, I'll queue all the 3 patches for this kernel. Cheers, -- Luís > KVM guest can fail to startup with following trace on host: > > qemu-system-x86: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40d0 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x47/0x67 > warn_alloc_failed+0xee/0x150 > __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x14a/0x150 > __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x776/0xb80 > alloc_kmem_pages+0x3a/0x110 > kmalloc_order+0x13/0x50 > kmemdup+0x1b/0x40 > __kvm_set_memory_region+0x24a/0x9f0 [kvm] > kvm_set_ioapic+0x130/0x130 [kvm] > kvm_set_memory_region+0x21/0x40 [kvm] > kvm_vm_ioctl+0x43f/0x750 [kvm] > > Failure happens when attempting to allocate pages for > 'struct kvm_memslots', however it doesn't have to be > present in physically contiguous (kmalloc-ed) address > space, change allocation to kvm_kvzalloc() so that > it will be vmalloc-ed when its size is more then a page. > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 14 +++++++------- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > index a2214d9609bd..cc6a25d95fbf 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type) > BUILD_BUG_ON(KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM > SHRT_MAX); > > r = -ENOMEM; > - kvm->memslots = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL); > + kvm->memslots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots)); > if (!kvm->memslots) > goto out_err_no_srcu; > > @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ out_err_no_srcu: > out_err_no_disable: > for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++) > kfree(kvm->buses[i]); > - kfree(kvm->memslots); > + kvfree(kvm->memslots); > kvm_arch_free_vm(kvm); > return ERR_PTR(r); > } > @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static void kvm_free_physmem(struct kvm *kvm) > kvm_for_each_memslot(memslot, slots) > kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, memslot, NULL); > > - kfree(kvm->memslots); > + kvfree(kvm->memslots); > } > > static void kvm_destroy_devices(struct kvm *kvm) > @@ -871,10 +871,10 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, > goto out_free; > } > > - slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), > - GFP_KERNEL); > + slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots)); > if (!slots) > goto out_free; > + memcpy(slots, kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots)); > > if ((change == KVM_MR_DELETE) || (change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) { > slot = id_to_memslot(slots, mem->slot); > @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, > kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(kvm, mem, &old, change); > > kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, &old, &new); > - kfree(old_memslots); > + kvfree(old_memslots); > > /* > * IOMMU mapping: New slots need to be mapped. Old slots need to be > @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, > return 0; > > out_slots: > - kfree(slots); > + kvfree(slots); > out_free: > kvm_free_physmem_slot(kvm, &new, &old); > out: > -- > 2.3.0 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html