[PATCH v5 05/13] xen/arm,arm64: move Xen initialization earlier
Stefano Stabellini
stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Thu Sep 5 12:59:52 EDT 2013
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 07:32:26PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Move Xen initialization earlier, before any DMA requests can be made.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
>
> I guess you should cc the corresponding maintainers here.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll do that.
> > arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 8 ++++++++
> > arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++
> > arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
> > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++
> > 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> [...]
>
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
> > #include <asm/traps.h>
> > #include <asm/memblock.h>
> > #include <asm/psci.h>
> > +#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
> >
> > unsigned int processor_id;
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(processor_id);
> > @@ -267,6 +268,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> > unflatten_device_tree();
> >
> > psci_init();
> > + xen_early_init();
>
> So Xen guests don't have any hope for single Image? Basically you set
> dma_ops unconditionally in xen_early_init(), even if the kernel is not
> intended to run under Xen.
That should not happen: if we are not running on Xen xen_early_init
returns early, before calling xen_mm_init.
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