xen: enable XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC as part of xen.config

[PATCH] xen: enable XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC as part of xen.config

Posted by Roger Pau Monne 8 months, 4 weeks ago

PVH dom0 is useless without XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC, as otherwise it will
very likely balloon out all dom0 memory to map foreign and grant pages.

Enable it by default as part of xen.config.  This also requires enabling
MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and ZONE_DEVICE.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
---
 kernel/configs/xen.config | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/configs/xen.config b/kernel/configs/xen.config
index 6878b9a49be8..1875a0a5047a 100644
--- a/kernel/configs/xen.config
+++ b/kernel/configs/xen.config
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ CONFIG_SCSI=y
 CONFIG_FB=y
 CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
+CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=y
+CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE=y
 CONFIG_TTY=y
 # Technically not required but otherwise produces
 # pretty useless systems starting from allnoconfig
@@ -47,3 +49,4 @@ CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=m
 CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC=m
 CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
 CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m
+CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC=y
-- 
2.48.1

Re: [PATCH] xen: enable XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC as part of xen.config

Posted by Jürgen Groß 8 months, 4 weeks ago

On 14.05.25 11:20, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> PVH dom0 is useless without XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC, as otherwise it will
> very likely balloon out all dom0 memory to map foreign and grant pages.
> 
> Enable it by default as part of xen.config.  This also requires enabling
> MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and ZONE_DEVICE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen