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authorKeqian Zhu2020-12-17 02:49:40 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini2021-03-06 11:41:54 +0100
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parentvl.c: do not execute trace_init_backends() before daemonizing (diff)
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accel: kvm: Fix memory waste under mismatch page size
When handle dirty log, we face qemu_real_host_page_size and TARGET_PAGE_SIZE. The first one is the granule of KVM dirty bitmap, and the second one is the granule of QEMU dirty bitmap. As qemu_real_host_page_size >= TARGET_PAGE_SIZE (kvm_init() enforced it), misuse TARGET_PAGE_SIZE to init kvmslot dirty_bmap may waste memory. For example, when qemu_real_host_page_size is 64K and TARGET_PAGE_SIZE is 4K, it wastes 93.75% (15/16) memory. Signed-off-by: Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20201217014941.22872-2-zhukeqian1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'accel/kvm/kvm-all.c')
-rw-r--r--accel/kvm/kvm-all.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 84c943fcdb..ffce83f1a7 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -598,8 +598,12 @@ static void kvm_memslot_init_dirty_bitmap(KVMSlot *mem)
* too, in most cases).
* So for now, let's align to 64 instead of HOST_LONG_BITS here, in
* a hope that sizeof(long) won't become >8 any time soon.
+ *
+ * Note: the granule of kvm dirty log is qemu_real_host_page_size.
+ * And mem->memory_size is aligned to it (otherwise this mem can't
+ * be registered to KVM).
*/
- hwaddr bitmap_size = ALIGN(((mem->memory_size) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS),
+ hwaddr bitmap_size = ALIGN(mem->memory_size / qemu_real_host_page_size,
/*HOST_LONG_BITS*/ 64) / 8;
mem->dirty_bmap = g_malloc0(bitmap_size);
}