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Today a PV guest (including dom0) can create 2MB contiguous memory
regions for DMA buffers at max. This has led to problems at least
with the megaraid_sas driver, which wants to allocate a 2.3MB DMA
buffer.
The limiting factor is the frame array used to do the hypercall for
making the memory contiguous, which has 512 entries and is just a
static array in mmu_pv.c.
In order to not waste memory for non-PV guests, put the initial
frame array into .init.data section and dynamically allocate an array
from the .init_after_bootmem hook of PV guests.
In case a contiguous memory area larger than the initially supported
2MB is requested, allocate a larger buffer for the frame list. Note
that such an allocation is tried only after memory management has been
initialized properly, which is tested via a flag being set in the
.init_after_bootmem hook.
Fixes: 9f40ec84a7 ("xen/swiotlb: add alignment check for dma buffers")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Alan Robinson <Alan.Robinson@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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