Re: [PATCH v8 4/7] xen/serial: switch txbuf runtime allocation to xvmalloc

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026, [email protected] wrote:

> From: Denis Mukhin <[email protected]> 
> 
> Switch 'txbuf' allocation to xvmalloc_array() since there is no
> hard requirement to have buffer physically contiguous.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Mukhin <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>


> ---
> Changes since v7:
> - new patch
> ---
>  xen/drivers/char/serial.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/drivers/char/serial.c b/xen/drivers/char/serial.c
> index e3c356408987..cf0abf1893e5 100644
> --- a/xen/drivers/char/serial.c
> +++ b/xen/drivers/char/serial.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  #include <xen/param.h>
>  #include <xen/sections.h>
>  #include <xen/serial.h>
> +#include <xen/xvmalloc.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/processor.h>
>  
> @@ -524,8 +525,7 @@ void __init serial_async_transmit(struct serial_port *port)
>          serial_txbufsz = PAGE_SIZE;
>      while ( serial_txbufsz & (serial_txbufsz - 1) )
>          serial_txbufsz &= serial_txbufsz - 1;
> -    port->txbuf = alloc_xenheap_pages(
> -        get_order_from_bytes(serial_txbufsz), 0);
> +    port->txbuf = xvmalloc_array(char, serial_txbufsz);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.54.0
>