On 6/3/19 2:25 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2019, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 5/28/19 6:48 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> From: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> On arm64 swiotlb is often (not always) already initialized by mem_init.
>>> We don't want to initialize it twice, which would trigger a second
>>> memory allocation. Moreover, the second memory pool is typically made of
>>> high pages and ends up replacing the original memory pool of low pages.
>>> As a side effect of this change, it is possible to have low pages in
>>> swiotlb-xen on arm64.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
>> Has this been tested on x86?
> Yes, I managed to test it using QEMU. There are no effects on x86, as
> the check io_tlb_start != 0 returns false.

I wonder though whether this is always the case.  When we are called
from pci_xen_swiotlb_init_late() for example.


-boris

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