linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: always initialize xen-swiotlb when xen-pcifront is enabling

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 06:04:05 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
        <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: always initialize xen-swiotlb when
 xen-pcifront is enabling

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 08:18:39PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 03:42:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Remove the dangerous late initialization of xen-swiotlb in
> > pci_xen_swiotlb_init_late and instead just always initialize
> > xen-swiotlb in the boot code if CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Doesn't it mean all the PV guests will basically waste 64MB of RAM
> by default each if they don't really have PCI devices?

If CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND is enabled, and the kernel's isn't booted
with swiotlb=noforce, yes.