linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/12] swiotlb-xen: fix late init retry

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Date:   Wed, 8 Sep 2021 07:50:33 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] swiotlb-xen: fix late init retry

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:04:47PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The commit referenced below removed the assignment of "bytes" from
> xen_swiotlb_init() without - like done for xen_swiotlb_init_early() -
> adding an assignment on the retry path, thus leading to excessively
> sized allocations upon retries.
> 
> Fixes: 2d29960af0be ("swiotlb: dynamically allocate io_tlb_default_mem")
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>