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-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/kvm_types.h5
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_types.h19
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/kvm_types.h b/include/asm-generic/kvm_types.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2a82daf110f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/kvm_types.h
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_KVM_TYPES_H
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_KVM_TYPES_H
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_types.h b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
index 68e84cf42a3f..a7580f69dda0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ enum kvm_mr_change;
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/kvm_types.h>
+
/*
* Address types:
*
@@ -58,4 +60,21 @@ struct gfn_to_pfn_cache {
bool dirty;
};
+#ifdef KVM_ARCH_NR_OBJS_PER_MEMORY_CACHE
+/*
+ * Memory caches are used to preallocate memory ahead of various MMU flows,
+ * e.g. page fault handlers. Gracefully handling allocation failures deep in
+ * MMU flows is problematic, as is triggering reclaim, I/O, etc... while
+ * holding MMU locks. Note, these caches act more like prefetch buffers than
+ * classical caches, i.e. objects are not returned to the cache on being freed.
+ */
+struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache {
+ int nobjs;
+ gfp_t gfp_zero;
+ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache;
+ void *objects[KVM_ARCH_NR_OBJS_PER_MEMORY_CACHE];
+};
+#endif
+
+
#endif /* __KVM_TYPES_H__ */