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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	IanJackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/NUMA: make init_node_heap() respect Xen heap limit
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:52:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441371162.26292.488.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E980B7.4090100@citrix.com>

> commit b11ab8e4982228d7944e11010f5b8eec890caf30
> Author: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
> Date:   Thu Sep 3 21:49:31 2015 +0100
> 
>     xen: pagealloc: Correctly calculate the number of xenheap bits

More accurate would be

    xen: arm64: do not (incorrectly) limit size of xenheap

Or some such?

With that:
    Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

Will you resend as a "git am" able thing please?

>     
>     The commit 88e3ed61642bb393458acc7a9bd2f96edc337190 "x86/NUMA: make
>     init_node_heap() respect Xen heap limit" breaks boot on the arm64 board
>     X-Gene.
>     
>     The xenheap bits variable is used to know the last RAM MFN always mapped
>     in Xen virtual memory. If the value is 0, it means that all the memory is
>     always mapped in Xen virtual memory.
>     
>     On X-gene the RAM bank resides above 128GB and last xenheap MFN is
>     0x4400000. With the new way to calculate the number of bits, xenheap_bits
>     will be equal to 38 bits. This will result to hide all the RAM and the
>     impossibility to allocate xenheap memory.
>     
>     Given that aarch64 have always all the memory mapped in Xen virtual
>     memory, it's not necessary to call xenheap_max_mfn which set the number
>     of bits.
>     
>     Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> index 6626eba..48f734f 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> @@ -665,7 +665,6 @@ static void __init setup_mm(unsigned long dtb_paddr, size_t dtb_size)
>      xenheap_virt_end = XENHEAP_VIRT_START + ram_end - ram_start;
>      xenheap_mfn_start = ram_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>      xenheap_mfn_end = ram_end >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -    xenheap_max_mfn(xenheap_mfn_end);
>  
>      /*
>       * Need enough mapped pages for copying the DTB.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-04 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27  8:37 [PATCH] x86/NUMA: make init_node_heap() respect Xen heap limit Jan Beulich
2015-08-27  9:25 ` Wei Liu
2015-08-27 10:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-08-27 14:43 ` Wei Liu
2015-09-01 10:28 ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-03 20:01 ` Julien Grall
2015-09-03 20:58   ` Julien Grall
2015-09-04  7:37     ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-04  8:27       ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-04  8:39         ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-04  8:52           ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-04  9:09             ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-04 11:29               ` Julien Grall
2015-09-04 12:02                 ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-04 12:05                   ` Wei Liu
2015-09-04 12:50                   ` Julien Grall
2015-09-04 12:57                     ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-04 12:52                 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-09-04 12:53                   ` Julien Grall

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