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[PATCH v7 12/42] KVM: guest_memfd: Return early if range already has requested attributes

From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <devnull+ackerleytng.google.com@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-05-23 00:18:04
Also in: b4-sent, kvm, linux-coco, linux-doc, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine (kvm), kvm guest_memfd, the rest · Maintainers: Paolo Bonzini, Sean Christopherson, Linus Torvalds

From: Ackerley Tng <redacted>

Extract a helper out of kvm_gmem_range_is_private() that checks that a
range has given attributes.

Optimize setting memory attributes by returning early if all pages in the
requested range already has the requested attributes.

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <redacted>
---
 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index c9c5b9f074baf..4e1028843953d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -86,6 +86,23 @@ static bool kvm_gmem_is_shared_mem(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index)
 	return !kvm_gmem_is_private_mem(inode, index);
 }
 
+static bool kvm_gmem_range_has_attributes(struct maple_tree *mt,
+					  pgoff_t index, size_t nr_pages,
+					  u64 attributes)
+{
+	pgoff_t end = index + nr_pages - 1;
+	void *entry;
+
+	lockdep_assert(mt_lock_is_held(mt));
+
+	mt_for_each(mt, entry, index, end) {
+		if (xa_to_value(entry) != attributes)
+			return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 static int __kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 				    pgoff_t index, struct folio *folio)
 {
@@ -652,12 +669,15 @@ static int __kvm_gmem_set_attributes(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t start,
 	pgoff_t end = start + nr_pages;
 	struct maple_tree *mt;
 	struct ma_state mas;
-	int r;
+	int r = 0;
 
 	mt = &gi->attributes;
 
 	filemap_invalidate_lock(mapping);
 
+	if (kvm_gmem_range_has_attributes(mt, start, nr_pages, attrs))
+		goto out;
+
 	mas_init(&mas, mt, start);
 	r = kvm_gmem_mas_preallocate(&mas, attrs, start, nr_pages);
 	if (r) {
@@ -1149,20 +1169,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(kvm_gmem_get_pfn);
 static bool kvm_gmem_range_is_private(struct gmem_inode *gi, pgoff_t index,
 				      size_t nr_pages, struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
 {
-	pgoff_t end = index + nr_pages - 1;
-	void *entry;
-
 	if (vm_memory_attributes)
 		return kvm_range_has_vm_memory_attributes(kvm, gfn, gfn + nr_pages,
 						       KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
 						       KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
 
-	mt_for_each(&gi->attributes, entry, index, end) {
-		if (xa_to_value(entry) != KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE)
-			return false;
-	}
-
-	return true;
+	return kvm_gmem_range_has_attributes(&gi->attributes, index, nr_pages,
+					     KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
 }
 
 static long __kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
-- 
2.54.0.794.g4f17f83d09-goog

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