kernel/linux.git/drivers/vhost/net.c, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2025-12-05T02:59:21+00:00

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: "Just a bunch of fixes and cleanups, mostly very simple. Several features were merged through net-next this time around" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: virtio_pci: drop kernel.h vhost: switch to arrays of feature bits vhost/test: add test specific macro for features virtio: clean up features qword/dword terms vduse: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users virtio_balloon: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users vdpa/pds: use %pe for ERR_PTR() in event handler registration vhost: Fix kthread worker cgroup failure handling virtio: vdpa: Fix reference count leak in octep_sriov_enable() vdpa/mlx5: Fix incorrect error code reporting in query_virtqueues virtio: fix map ops comment virtio: fix virtqueue_set_affinity() docs virtio: standardize Returns documentation style virtio: fix grammar in virtio_map_ops docs virtio: fix grammar in virtio_queue_info docs virtio: fix whitespace in virtio_config_ops virtio: fix typo in virtio_device_ready() comment virtio: fix kernel-doc for mapping/free_coherent functions virtio_vdpa: fix misleading return in void function

vhost: switch to arrays of feature bits

2025-11-30T23:02:43+00:00

The current interface where caller has to know in which 64 bit chunk each bit is, is inelegant and fragile. Let's simply use arrays of bits. By using unroll macros text size grows only slightly. Message-ID: <637e182e139980e5930d50b928ba5ac072d628a9.1764225384.git.mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio: clean up features qword/dword terms

2025-11-27T07:03:07+00:00

virtio pci uses word to mean "16 bits". mmio uses it to mean "32 bits". To avoid confusion, let's avoid the term in core virtio altogether. Just say U64 to mean "64 bit". Fixes: e7d4c1c5a546 ("virtio: introduce extended features") Cc: Paolo Abeni Acked-by: Jason Wang Message-ID: Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost: rewind next_avail_head while discarding descriptors

2025-11-26T22:44:58+00:00

When discarding descriptors with IN_ORDER, we should rewind next_avail_head otherwise it would run out of sync with last_avail_idx. This would cause driver to report "id X is not a head". Fixing this by returning the number of descriptors that is used for each buffer via vhost_get_vq_desc_n() so caller can use the value while discarding descriptors. Fixes: 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120022950.10117-1-jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vhost-net: flush batched before enabling notifications

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

Commit 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") tries to defer the notification enabling by moving the logic out of the loop after the vhost_tx_batch() when nothing new is spotted. This caused unexpected side effects as the new logic is reused for several other error conditions. A previous patch reverted 8c2e6b26ffe2. Now, bring the performance back up by flushing batched buffers before enabling notifications. Reported-by: Jon Kohler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-3-jasowang@redhat.com>

Revert "vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg"

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

This reverts commit 8c2e6b26ffe243be1e78f5a4bfb1a857d6e6f6d6. It tries to defer the notification enabling by moving the logic out of the loop after the vhost_tx_batch() when nothing new is spotted. This will bring side effects as the new logic would be reused for several other error conditions. One example is the IOTLB: when there's an IOTLB miss, get_tx_bufs() might return -EAGAIN and exit the loop and see there's still available buffers, so it will queue the tx work again until userspace feed the IOTLB entry correctly. This will slowdown the tx processing and trigger the TX watchdog in the guest as reported in https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/9/10/1596. To fix, revert the change. A follow up patch will bring the performance back in a safe way. Reported-by: Jon Kohler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8c2e6b26ffe2 ("vhost/net: Defer TX queue re-enable until after sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-2-jasowang@redhat.com>

vhost-net: unbreak busy polling

2025-09-19T08:15:26+00:00

Commit 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") pass the number of used elem to vhost_net_rx_peek_head_len() to make sure it can signal the used correctly before trying to do busy polling. But it forgets to clear the count, this would cause the count run out of sync with handle_rx() and break the busy polling. Fixing this by passing the pointer of the count and clearing it after the signaling the used. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 67a873df0c41 ("vhost: basic in order support") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Message-Id: <20250917063045.2042-1-jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin