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.