On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 08:29:20AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:54:20AM +0200, Roger Pau Monn?? wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 08:33:37AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:44:47AM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > > > > If enabled (because ZONE_DEVICE is supported) the usage of the new > > > > functionality untangles Xen balloon and RAM hotplug from the usage of > > > > unpopulated physical memory ranges to map foreign pages, which is the > > > > correct thing to do in order to avoid mappings of foreign pages depend > > > > on memory hotplug. > > > > > > So please just select ZONE_DEVICE if this is so much better rather > > > than maintaining two variants. > > > > We still need to other variant for Arm at least, so both need to be > > maintained anyway, even if we force ZONE_DEVICE on x86. > > Well, it still really helps reproducability if you stick to one > implementation of x86. > > The alternative would be an explicit config option to opt into it, > but just getting a different implementation based on a random > kernel option is strange. Would adding something like the chunk below to the patch be OK? ---8<--- diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig index 018020b91baa..5f321a1319e6 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -328,7 +328,14 @@ config XEN_FRONT_PGDIR_SHBUF tristate config XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC - bool - default y if ZONE_DEVICE && !ARM && !ARM64 + bool "Use unpopulated memory ranges for guest mappings" + depends on X86 + select ZONE_DEVICE + default y + help + Use unpopulated memory ranges in order to create mappings for guest + memory regions, including grants maps and foreign pages. This avoids + having to balloon out RAM regions in order to obtain physical memory + space to create such mappings. endmenu _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
