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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Kurt C. Hackel" <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>,
	Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@eu.citrix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	mukesh.rathor@oracle.com, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: dom0 boot failure with 256G
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:31:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4847EAB1.2080007@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484802F4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich wrote:
>> A paravirtualised kernel needs to have its PAGE_MASK widened. This is a bug
>> we've bumped into once or twice.
>>     
>
> Even a native kernel ought to honor the physical address width the
> processor supports rather than arbitrarily masking off bits just because
> original PAE only supported 36 bits.

Current 2.6 is too strict about this.  I'll queue up a patch to fix it.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05  2:07 dom0 boot failure with 256G Mukesh Rathor
2008-06-05  4:00 ` Ian Pratt
2008-06-05  7:24   ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-05 12:16     ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-05 12:54       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-05 12:58         ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-05 13:15           ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-05 13:17             ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-05 13:31             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-06-06  2:48       ` Mukesh Rathor
2008-06-05 18:01   ` mukesh rathor
2008-06-05  7:30 ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-05  7:35 ` [PATCH] " Jan Beulich
2008-06-06  2:43   ` Mukesh Rathor
2008-06-06  7:05     ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-07  0:33       ` Mukesh Rathor

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