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

[Christoph Hellwig]

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@xxxxxx>
> 
> 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.