xen: introduce an arch helper for default dma zone status

In current code, when Xen is running in a multiple nodes
NUMA system, it will set dma_bitsize in end_boot_allocator
to reserve some low address memory as DMA zone.

There are some x86 implications in the implementation.
Because on x86, memory starts from 0. On a multiple-nodes
NUMA system, if a single node contains the majority or all
of the DMA memory, x86 prefers to give out memory from
non-local allocations rather than exhausting the DMA memory
ranges. Hence x86 uses dma_bitsize to set aside some largely
arbitrary amount of memory for DMA zone. The allocations
from DMA zone would happen only after exhausting all other
nodes' memory.

But the implications are not shared across all architectures.
For example, Arm cannot guarantee the availability of memory
below a certain boundary for DMA limited-capability devices
either. But currently, Arm doesn't need a reserved DMA zone
in Xen. Because there is no DMA device in Xen. And for guests,
Xen Arm only allows Dom0 to have DMA operations without IOMMU.
Xen will try to allocate memory under 4GB or memory range that
is limited by dma_bitsize for Dom0 in boot time. For DomU, even
Xen can passthrough devices to DomU without IOMMU, but Xen Arm
doesn't guarantee their DMA operations. So, Xen Arm doesn't
need a reserved DMA zone to provide DMA memory for guests.

In this patch, we introduce an arch_want_default_dmazone helper
for different architectures to determine whether they need to
set dma_bitsize for DMA zone reservation or not.

At the same time, when x86 Xen is built with CONFIG_PV=n could
probably leverage this new helper to actually not trigger DMA
zone reservation.

Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <wei.chen@arm.com>
Tested-by: Jiamei Xie <jiamei.xie@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/numa.h b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/numa.h
index 31a6de4e2346401461593b52fe9433b0f6cda78b..e4c4d89192de3261c885ce290734142c0bc65b48 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/numa.h
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/numa.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ extern mfn_t first_valid_mfn;
 #define node_spanned_pages(nid) (max_page - mfn_x(first_valid_mfn))
 #define node_start_pfn(nid) (mfn_x(first_valid_mfn))
 #define __node_distance(a, b) (20)
+#define arch_want_default_dmazone() (false)
 
 #endif /* __ARCH_ARM_NUMA_H */
 /*

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
index bada2c0bb9886df3cafdbd74ec687aa19d78b6d6..5d8385f2e15bab394304111856819e4d327e899d 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static inline __attribute__((pure)) nodeid_t phys_to_nid(paddr_t addr)
 #define node_spanned_pages(nid)        (NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages)
 #define node_end_pfn(nid)       (NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn + \
                                 NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages)
+#define arch_want_default_dmazone() (num_online_nodes() > 1)
 
 extern int valid_numa_range(u64 start, u64 end, nodeid_t node);
 

diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
index ea59cd1a4aba24f6c55c4ec2e1f2f1540e74ab06..000ae6b9725e18400dcec727d04687e920e34f75 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
+++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
@@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ void __init end_boot_allocator(void)
     }
     nr_bootmem_regions = 0;
 
-    if ( !dma_bitsize && (num_online_nodes() > 1) )
+    if ( !dma_bitsize && arch_want_default_dmazone() )
         dma_bitsize = arch_get_dma_bitsize();
 
     printk("Domain heap initialised");