[PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Account VM-scoped allocations to the VM cgroup

Anup Patel anup at brainfault.org
Sat Aug 1 01:51:58 PDT 2026


On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM <yhchen312 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Yuhang.chen" <yhchen312 at gmail.com>
>
> Charge the per-VM and per-vCPU allocations (stage-2 PGD, APLIC state,
> IMSIC context, vector context, FWFT config, PMU snapshot) to the
> allocating process's memory cgroup via GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT / __GFP_ACCOUNT.
> Per-CPU module-init allocations and transient scratch buffers are left
> unaccounted.
>
> Measured results (KVM guest run in a memory cgroup; VM cgroup
> memory.current after guest boot):
>
>   VM cgroup memory.current    1044480 bytes
>
> Assisted-by: YuanSheng:deepseek-v4-pro
> Co-developed-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Yuhang.chen <yhchen312 at gmail.com>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>

Queued this patch for Linux-7.3

Thanks,
Anup

> ---
>  arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c     | 3 ++-
>  arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c     | 4 ++--
>  arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c           | 4 ++--
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c      | 2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_fwft.c | 2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c   | 4 ++--
>  6 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c
> index 748107c347d9..be902ea6480b 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c
> @@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ int kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>                 return 0;
>
>         /* Allocate APLIC global state */
> -       aplic = kzalloc_flex(*aplic, irqs, kvm->arch.aia.nr_sources + 1);
> +       aplic = kzalloc_flex(*aplic, irqs, kvm->arch.aia.nr_sources + 1,
> +                            GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!aplic)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>         kvm->arch.aia.aplic_state = aplic;
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> index d38f5de0834c..507d82e5bc88 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>                 return -EINVAL;
>
>         /* Allocate IMSIC context */
> -       imsic = kzalloc_obj(*imsic);
> +       imsic = kzalloc_obj(*imsic, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!imsic)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>         vcpu->arch.aia_context.imsic_state = imsic;
> @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         imsic->vsfile_hgei = imsic->vsfile_cpu = -1;
>
>         /* Setup IMSIC SW-file */
> -       swfile_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> +       swfile_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO,
>                                   get_order(sizeof(*imsic->swfile)));
>         if (!swfile_page) {
>                 ret = -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
> index 082f9b261733..9b1d809daf2c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -669,8 +669,8 @@ int kvm_riscv_mmu_alloc_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
>                 return -EINVAL;
>         }
>
> -       pgd_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> -                               get_order(kvm_riscv_gstage_pgd_size));
> +       pgd_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO,
> +                              get_order(kvm_riscv_gstage_pgd_size));
>         if (!pgd_page)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>         kvm->arch.pgd = page_to_virt(pgd_page);
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> index bb46dcbfb24d..e5018784779d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_snapshot_set_shmem(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long s
>                 }
>         }
>
> -       kvpmu->sdata = kzalloc(snapshot_area_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +       kvpmu->sdata = kzalloc(snapshot_area_size, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!kvpmu->sdata) {
>                 sbiret = SBI_ERR_FAILURE;
>                 goto out;
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_fwft.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_fwft.c
> index ab39ac464ffd..4984d3e54e23 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_fwft.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_fwft.c
> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static int kvm_sbi_ext_fwft_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         int i;
>
>         fwft->configs = kzalloc_objs(struct kvm_sbi_fwft_config,
> -                                    ARRAY_SIZE(features));
> +                                    ARRAY_SIZE(features), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!fwft->configs)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> index 62d2fb77bb9b..d748e7d825e1 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> @@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ void kvm_riscv_vcpu_host_vector_restore(struct kvm_cpu_context *cntx)
>
>  int kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> -       vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap = kzalloc(riscv_v_vsize, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap = kzalloc(riscv_v_vsize, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> -       vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap = kzalloc(riscv_v_vsize, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap = kzalloc(riscv_v_vsize, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap) {
>                 kfree(vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap);
>                 vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap = NULL;
> --
> 2.34.1
>



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