[RFC PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: allow mapping of compound tail pages for IO or PFNMAP mapping

From: Yan Zhao
Date: Wed Jan 03 2024 - 04:13:51 EST


Allow mapping of tail pages of compound pages for IO or PFNMAP mapping
by trying and getting ref count of its head page.

For IO or PFNMAP mapping, sometimes it's backed by compound pages.
KVM will just return error on mapping of tail pages of the compound pages,
as ref count of the tail pages are always 0.

So, rather than check and add ref count of a tail page, check and add ref
count of its folio (head page) to allow mapping of the compound tail pages.

This will not break the origial intention to disallow mapping of tail pages
of non-compound higher order allocations as the folio of a non-compound
tail page is the same as the page itself.

On the other side, put_page() has already converted page to folio before
putting page ref.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index acd67fb40183..f53b58446ac7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2892,7 +2892,7 @@ static int kvm_try_get_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
if (!page)
return 1;

- return get_page_unless_zero(page);
+ return folio_try_get(page_folio(page));
}

static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
--
2.17.1