lwn.git/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c, branch docs-mw

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm/page_isolation: remove migratetype parameter from more functions

2025-07-13T23:38:18+00:00

migratetype is no longer overwritten during pageblock isolation, start_isolate_page_range(), has_unmovable_pages(), and set_migratetype_isolate() no longer need which migratetype to restore during isolation failure. For has_unmoable_pages(), it needs to know if the isolation is for CMA allocation, so adding PB_ISOLATE_MODE_CMA_ALLOC provide the information. At the same time change isolation flags to enum pb_isolate_mode (PB_ISOLATE_MODE_MEM_OFFLINE, PB_ISOLATE_MODE_CMA_ALLOC, PB_ISOLATE_MODE_OTHER). Remove REPORT_FAILURE and check PB_ISOLATE_MODE_MEM_OFFLINE, since only PB_ISOLATE_MODE_MEM_OFFLINE reports isolation failures. alloc_contig_range() no longer needs migratetype. Replace it with a newly defined acr_flags_t to tell if an allocation is for CMA. So does __alloc_contig_migrate_range(). Add ACR_FLAGS_NONE (set to 0) to indicate ordinary allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250617021115.2331563-7-ziy@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Richard Chang Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()

2025-02-18T10:19:07+00:00

hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and initializes the timer completely. Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Zack Rusin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4a911503d16684592b59a16d8ade97e42df64a54.1738746904.git.namcao@linutronix.de

virtio-mem: support CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM

2025-01-27T14:39:25+00:00

Let's implement the get_device_ram() vmcore callback, so architectures that select NEED_PROC_VMCORE_NEED_DEVICE_RAM, like s390 soon, can include that memory in a crash dump. Merge ranges, and process ranges that might contain a mixture of plugged and unplugged, to reduce the total number of ranges. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-12-david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio-mem: remember usable region size

2025-01-27T14:39:25+00:00

Let's remember the usable region size, which will be helpful in kdump mode next. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-11-david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio-mem: mark device ready before registering callbacks in kdump mode

2025-01-27T14:39:25+00:00

After the callbacks are registered we may immediately get a callback. So mark the device ready before registering the callbacks. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-10-david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

mm/memory_hotplug: skip adjust_managed_page_count() for PageOffline() pages when offlining

2024-07-04T02:30:18+00:00

We currently have a hack for virtio-mem in place to handle memory offlining with PageOffline pages for which we already adjusted the managed page count. Let's enlighten memory offlining code so we can get rid of that hack, and document the situation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240607090939.89524-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Eugenio Pérez Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Xuan Zhuo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/memory_hotplug: initialize memmap of !ZONE_DEVICE with PageOffline() instead of PageReserved()

2024-07-04T02:30:18+00:00

We currently initialize the memmap such that PG_reserved is set and the refcount of the page is 1. In virtio-mem code, we have to manually clear that PG_reserved flag to make memory offlining with partially hotplugged memory blocks possible: has_unmovable_pages() would otherwise bail out on such pages. We want to avoid PG_reserved where possible and move to typed pages instead. Further, we want to further enlighten memory offlining code about PG_offline: offline pages in an online memory section. One example is handling managed page count adjustments in a cleaner way during memory offlining. So let's initialize the pages with PG_offline instead of PG_reserved. generic_online_page()->__free_pages_core() will now clear that flag before handing that memory to the buddy. Note that the page refcount is still 1 and would forbid offlining of such memory except when special care is take during GOING_OFFLINE as currently only implemented by virtio-mem. With this change, we can now get non-PageReserved() pages in the XEN balloon list. From what I can tell, that can already happen via decrease_reservation(), so that should be fine. HV-balloon should not really observe a change: partial online memory blocks still cannot get surprise-offlined, because the refcount of these PageOffline() pages is 1. Update virtio-mem, HV-balloon and XEN-balloon code to be aware that hotplugged pages are now PageOffline() instead of PageReserved() before they are handed over to the buddy. We'll leave the ZONE_DEVICE case alone for now. Note that self-hosted vmemmap pages will no longer be marked as reserved. This matches ordinary vmemmap pages allocated from the buddy during memory hotplug. Now, really only vmemmap pages allocated from memblock during early boot will be marked reserved. Existing PageReserved() checks seem to be handling all relevant cases correctly even after this change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240607090939.89524-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Oscar Salvador [generic memory-hotplug bits] Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Eugenio Pérez Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Xuan Zhuo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2024-05-23T19:04:36+00:00

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: "Several new features here: - virtio-net is finally supported in vduse - virtio (balloon and mem) interaction with suspend is improved - vhost-scsi now handles signals better/faster And fixes, cleanups all over the place" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (48 commits) virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL virtio: delete vq in vp_find_vqs_msix() when request_irq() fails MAINTAINERS: add Eugenio Pérez as reviewer vhost-vdpa: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API vp_vdpa: don't allocate unused msix vectors sound: virtio: drop owner assignment fuse: virtio: drop owner assignment scsi: virtio: drop owner assignment rpmsg: virtio: drop owner assignment nvdimm: virtio_pmem: drop owner assignment wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop owner assignment vsock/virtio: drop owner assignment net: 9p: virtio: drop owner assignment net: virtio: drop owner assignment net: caif: virtio: drop owner assignment misc: nsm: drop owner assignment iommu: virtio: drop owner assignment drm/virtio: drop owner assignment gpio: virtio: drop owner assignment firmware: arm_scmi: virtio: drop owner assignment ...