Re: [PATCH 7/7] KVM: arm64: Use less bits for hyp_page refcount
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-06-01 15:21:58
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On Thu, 27 May 2021 13:51:34 +0100, Quentin Perret [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The hyp_page refcount is currently encoded on 4 bytes even though we never need to count that many objects in a page. Make it 2 bytes to save some space in the vmemmap. As overflows are more likely to happen as well, make sure to catch those with a BUG in the increment function. Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <redacted> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/gfp.h | 2 ++ arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/gfp.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/gfp.h index d420e5c0845f..a82f73faf41e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/gfp.h +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/gfp.h@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ struct hyp_pool { static inline void hyp_page_ref_inc(struct hyp_page *p) { + if (p->refcount == USHRT_MAX) + BUG();
nit: BUG_ON(p->refcount == USHRT_MAX);
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
p->refcount++; }diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h index 3fe34fa30ea4..592b7edb3edb 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> struct hyp_page { - unsigned int refcount; + unsigned short refcount; unsigned short order; };-- 2.31.1.818.g46aad6cb9e-goog
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