[PATCH v9 13/41] KVM: guest_memfd: Return early if range already has requested attributes

Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:35:12 -0700
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From: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shivank Garg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>
---
 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index 612fcde4ae8ea..928fc7f4a01e4 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -94,6 +94,24 @@ 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 inode *inode,
+					  pgoff_t index, size_t nr_pages,
+					  u64 attributes)
+{
+	struct maple_tree *mt = &GMEM_I(inode)->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 (kvm_gmem_interpret_entry(inode, entry) != attributes)
+			return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns a locked folio on success.  The caller is responsible for
  * setting the up-to-date flag before the memory is mapped into the guest.
@@ -611,12 +629,15 @@ 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(inode, start, nr_pages, attrs))
+		goto out;
+
 	mas_init(&mas, mt, start);
 	r = kvm_gmem_mas_preallocate(&mas, attrs, start, nr_pages);
 	if (r) {
@@ -1107,22 +1128,14 @@ static bool kvm_range_is_private(struct file *file, pgoff_t index,
 				 size_t nr_pages, struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
-	pgoff_t last = index + nr_pages - 1;
-	struct maple_tree *mt;
-	void *entry;
 
 	if (!gmem_in_place_conversion)
 		return kvm_range_has_vm_memory_attributes(kvm, gfn, gfn + nr_pages,
 							  KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
 							  KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
 
-	mt = &GMEM_I(inode)->attributes;
-	mt_for_each(mt, entry, index, last) {
-		if (kvm_gmem_interpret_entry(inode, entry) !=
-		    KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE)
-			return false;
-	}
-	return true;
+	return kvm_gmem_range_has_attributes(inode, index, nr_pages,
+					     KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
 }
 
 static long __kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,

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