From 119e9db233ad0f4cbd4cfb9f9385a7bca378b37d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zeng Chi <zengchi@kylinos.cn>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:24:42 +0800
Subject: KVM: Don't pre-reserve xarray entries when storing empty/NULL
 attributes

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>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/linear.rst | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/linear.rst

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+=========
+dm-linear
+=========
+
+Device-Mapper's "linear" target maps a linear range of the Device-Mapper
+device onto a linear range of another device.  This is the basic building
+block of logical volume managers.
+
+Parameters: <dev path> <offset>
+    <dev path>:
+	Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
+        "major:minor" device-number.
+    <offset>:
+	Starting sector within the device.
+
+
+Example scripts
+===============
+
+::
+
+  #!/bin/sh
+  # Create an identity mapping for a device
+  echo "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` linear $1 0" | dmsetup create identity
+
+::
+
+  #!/bin/sh
+  # Join 2 devices together
+  size1=`blockdev --getsz $1`
+  size2=`blockdev --getsz $2`
+  echo "0 $size1 linear $1 0
+  $size1 $size2 linear $2 0" | dmsetup create joined
+
+::
+
+  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
+  # Split a device into 4M chunks and then join them together in reverse order.
+
+  my $name = "reverse";
+  my $extent_size = 4 * 1024 * 2;
+  my $dev = $ARGV[0];
+  my $table = "";
+  my $count = 0;
+
+  if (!defined($dev)) {
+          die("Please specify a device.\n");
+  }
+
+  my $dev_size = `blockdev --getsz $dev`;
+  my $extents = int($dev_size / $extent_size) -
+                (($dev_size % $extent_size) ? 1 : 0);
+
+  while ($extents > 0) {
+          my $this_start = $count * $extent_size;
+          $extents--;
+          $count++;
+          my $this_offset = $extents * $extent_size;
+
+          $table .= "$this_start $extent_size linear $dev $this_offset\n";
+  }
+
+  `echo \"$table\" | dmsetup create $name`;
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