KVM: Don't pre-reserve xarray entries when storing empty/NULL attributesgrafted

Skip the xarray reservation loop when clearing all memory attributes, as
storing NULL only erases the entry and never needs to allocate, so no
reservation (and no cleanup of a failed one) is required in that case.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: David Ballesteros <davimaba.v@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Chi <zengchi@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921102442.1232375-1-zeng_chi911@163.com
[sean: split to separate patch]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/string-utils.h b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/string-utils.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96eecd38b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/string-utils.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Red Hat
+ */
+
+#ifndef VDO_STRING_UTILS_H
+#define VDO_STRING_UTILS_H
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+
+/* Utilities related to string manipulation */
+
+static inline const char *vdo_bool_to_string(bool value)
+{
+	return value ? "true" : "false";
+}
+
+/* Append a formatted string to the end of a buffer. */
+char *vdo_append_to_buffer(char *buffer, char *buf_end, const char *fmt, ...)
+	__printf(3, 4);
+
+#endif /* VDO_STRING_UTILS_H */