linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] swiotlb-xen: arrange to have buffer info logged

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Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.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 08/12] swiotlb-xen: arrange to have buffer info logged

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I consider it unhelpful that address and size of the buffer aren't put
> in the log file; it makes diagnosing issues needlessly harder. The
> majority of callers of swiotlb_init() also passes 1 for the "verbose"
> parameter. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>


> --- a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ retry:
>  		panic("%s (rc:%d)", xen_swiotlb_error(XEN_SWIOTLB_EFIXUP), rc);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (swiotlb_init_with_tbl(start, nslabs, false))
> +	if (swiotlb_init_with_tbl(start, nslabs, true))
>  		panic("Cannot allocate SWIOTLB buffer");
>  	swiotlb_set_max_segment(PAGE_SIZE);
>  }
>