From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7B3361.6020604@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110921171103.GA2768@phenom.oracle.com>
On 21/09/11 18:11, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:29:21PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>>
>> Patch 7 releases all pages in the initial allocation with PFNs that
>> lie within a 1-1 mapping. This seems correct to me as I think that
>
> The only thing I remember about this was with dmidecode doing something
> fishy.. (As in, it wouldn't work when the pages under 1MB were released)
> (But I can't remember the details about it, so I might be completly
> wrong).
>
> Could you please test that as well?
dmidecode works on the two test boxes I had to hand.
>> once the 1-1 mapping is set the MFN of the original page is lost so
>> it's no longer accessible by the kernel (and it cannot be used by
>> another domain
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 12:29 xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3) David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM David Vrabel
2011-09-21 15:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 2/7] xen: avoid adding non-existant memory if the reservation is unlimited David Vrabel
2011-09-21 15:08 ` Unknown, Konrad Rzeszutek
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] xen/balloon: account for pages released during memory setup David Vrabel
2011-09-21 15:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] xen/balloon: simplify test for the end of usable RAM David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 5/7] xen: allow balloon driver to use more than one memory region David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 6/7] xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 7/7] xen: release all pages within 1-1 p2m mappings David Vrabel
2011-09-20 16:57 ` xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3) Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-21 22:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-22 12:32 ` David Vrabel
2011-09-22 17:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-22 22:34 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-22 22:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-22 23:46 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-23 10:45 ` David Vrabel
2011-09-23 13:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-23 19:04 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-21 17:11 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-22 13:08 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2011-09-24 2:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-26 14:20 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-27 14:09 ` David Vrabel
2011-09-27 23:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-28 10:45 ` David Vrabel
2011-09-28 13:25 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-28 13:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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