Creating a dom0less guest with a high vCPU count (e.g., >32) fails
because the fixed 4KiB device tree buffer (DOMU_DTB_SIZE) overflows
during creation.

The FDT nodes for each vCPU are the primary consumer of space,
and the previous fixed-size buffer was insufficient.

This patch replaces the fixed size with a formula that calculates
the required buffer size based on a fixed baseline plus a scalable
portion for each potential vCPU up to the MAX_VIRT_CPUS limit.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <[email protected]>
---
V1: 
https://patchew.org/Xen/[email protected]/

  V2:
   - update commit subj/desc
   - use a formula that accounts MAX_VIRT_CPUS
   - add BUILD_BUG_ON
---
---
 xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-build.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-build.c 
b/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-build.c
index 3f5b987ed8..38a5830813 100644
--- a/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-build.c
+++ b/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-build.c
@@ -461,15 +461,25 @@ static int __init domain_handle_dtb_boot_module(struct 
domain *d,
 
 /*
  * The max size for DT is 2MB. However, the generated DT is small (not 
including
- * domU passthrough DT nodes whose size we account separately), 4KB are enough
- * for now, but we might have to increase it in the future.
+ * domU passthrough DT nodes whose size we account separately). The size is
+ * calculated from a fixed baseline plus a scalable portion for each potential
+ * vCPU node up to the system limit (MAX_VIRT_CPUS), as the vCPU nodes are
+ * the primary consumer of space.
+ *
+ * The baseline of 2KiB is a safe buffer for all non-vCPU FDT content.
+ * Empirical testing with the maximum number of other device tree nodes shows
+ * a final compacted base size of ~1.5KiB. The 128 bytes per vCPU is derived
+ * from a worst-case analysis of the FDT construction-time size for a single
+ * vCPU node.
  */
-#define DOMU_DTB_SIZE 4096
+#define DOMU_DTB_SIZE (2048 + (MAX_VIRT_CPUS * 128))
 static int __init prepare_dtb_domU(struct domain *d, struct kernel_info *kinfo)
 {
     int addrcells, sizecells;
     int ret, fdt_size = DOMU_DTB_SIZE;
 
+    BUILD_BUG_ON(DOMU_DTB_SIZE > SZ_2M);
+
     kinfo->phandle_intc = GUEST_PHANDLE_GIC;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GRANT_TABLE
-- 
2.34.1

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