Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/swiotlb: fix allocated size

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 16.09.24 09:59, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 16.09.2024 08:47, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The allocated size in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent() and
> > xen_swiotlb_free_coherent() is calculated wrong for the case of
> > XEN_PAGE_SIZE not matching PAGE_SIZE. Fix that.
> >
> > Fixes: 7250f422da04 ("xen-swiotlb: use actually allocated size on check physical 
> > continuous")
> > Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> > --- a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> >         void *ret;
> >   
> >   	/* Align the allocation to the Xen page size */
> > -       size = 1UL << (order + XEN_PAGE_SHIFT);
> > +       size = ALIGN(size, XEN_PAGE_SIZE);
> The way you're doing it has further positive effects, as the size
> is now also no longer needlessly over-aligned. May want mentioning
> in the description. Hope of course is that no-one came to rely on
> the up-to-next-power-of-2 allocation anywhere (which of course
> would be a bug there, yet might end in a perceived regression).
Quite unlikely IMHO, as this is a Xen-only behavior. I'm not aware of
any hardware used with Xen only. So for a regression to happen the driver
allocating DMA memory would need to have a Xen-specific handling relying
on the higher alignment.


Juergen

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