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, 81 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-zero.c b/drivers/md/dm-zero.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a0bb623e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-zero.c
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 Jana Saout <jana@saout.de>
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPL.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/device-mapper.h>
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/bio.h>
+
+#define DM_MSG_PREFIX "zero"
+
+/*
+ * Construct a dummy mapping that only returns zeros
+ */
+static int zero_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	if (argc != 0) {
+		ti->error = "No arguments required";
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Silently drop discards, avoiding -EOPNOTSUPP.
+	 */
+	ti->num_discard_bios = 1;
+	ti->discards_supported = true;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return zeros only on reads
+ */
+static int zero_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio)
+{
+	switch (bio_op(bio)) {
+	case REQ_OP_READ:
+		if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD) {
+			/* readahead of null bytes only wastes buffer cache */
+			return DM_MAPIO_KILL;
+		}
+		zero_fill_bio(bio);
+		break;
+	case REQ_OP_WRITE:
+	case REQ_OP_DISCARD:
+		/* writes get silently dropped */
+		break;
+	default:
+		return DM_MAPIO_KILL;
+	}
+
+	bio_endio(bio);
+
+	/* accepted bio, don't make new request */
+	return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
+}
+
+static void zero_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits)
+{
+	limits->max_hw_discard_sectors = UINT_MAX;
+	limits->discard_granularity = 512;
+}
+
+static struct target_type zero_target = {
+	.name   = "zero",
+	.version = {1, 2, 0},
+	.features = DM_TARGET_NOWAIT,
+	.module = THIS_MODULE,
+	.ctr    = zero_ctr,
+	.map    = zero_map,
+	.io_hints = zero_io_hints,
+};
+module_dm(zero);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Jana Saout <jana@saout.de>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DM_NAME " dummy target returning zeros");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");