From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>,
gsomlo@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hw/smbios: fix memory corruption for large guests due to handle overlap
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:18:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220204131805.3a225566@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220204110558.h3246jyelrvhto5q@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 12:05:58 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Another question is why we split memory on 16Gb chunks, to begin with.
> > Maybe instead of doing so, we should just add 1 type17 entry describing
> > whole system RAM size. In which case we don't need this dance around
> > handle offsets anymore.
>
> Maybe to make the entries look like they do on physical hardware?
> i.e. DIMM size is a power of two? Also physical 1TB DIMMs just
> don't exist?
Does it have to be a DIMM, we can make it Other/Unknown/Row of chips/Chip
to more close to builtin memory that's is our main ram is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-04 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-03 13:09 [PATCH v2] hw/smbios: fix memory corruption for large guests due to handle overlap Ani Sinha
2022-02-04 9:34 ` Igor Mammedov
2022-02-04 11:05 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-04 12:18 ` Igor Mammedov [this message]
2022-02-04 13:52 ` Ani Sinha
2022-02-10 12:32 ` Ani Sinha
2022-02-04 13:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-07 15:12 ` Ani Sinha
2022-02-08 7:48 ` Igor Mammedov
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