[PATCH 11/12] swiotlb: merge swiotlb-xen initialization into swiotlb

Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com
Thu Mar 10 02:18:57 AEDT 2022


On 3/9/22 1:18 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:38:21PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 3/1/22 5:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Allow to pass a remap argument to the swiotlb initialization functions
>>> to handle the Xen/x86 remap case.  ARM/ARM64 never did any remapping
>>> from xen_swiotlb_fixup, so we don't even need that quirk.
>>
>> Any chance this patch could be split? Lots of things are happening here and it's somewhat hard to review. (Patch 7 too BTW but I think I managed to get through it)
> What would be your preferred split?


swiotlb_init() rework to be done separately?


>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
>>> index e0def4b1c3181..2f2c468acb955 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
>>> @@ -71,15 +71,12 @@ static inline void __init pci_swiotlb_detect(void)
>>>    #endif /* CONFIG_SWIOTLB */
>>>      #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN
>>> -static bool xen_swiotlb;
>>> -
>>>    static void __init pci_xen_swiotlb_init(void)
>>>    {
>>>    	if (!xen_initial_domain() && !x86_swiotlb_enable)
>>>    		return;
>>
>> Now that there is a single call site for this routine I think this check can be dropped. We are only called here for xen_initial_domain()==true.
> The callsite just checks xen_pv_domain() and itself is called
> unconditionally during initialization.


Oh, right, nevermind. *pv* domain.


-boris



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