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* xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3)
@ 2011-09-15 12:29 David Vrabel
  2011-09-15 12:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2011-09-15 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

This set of patches fixes some bugs in the memory initialization under
Xen and in Xen's memory balloon driver.  They can make 100s of MB of
additional RAM available (depending on the system/configuration).

Patch 1 is already applied.

Patch 2 fixes a bug in patch 1 and should be queued for 3.1 (and along
with patch 1 considered for 3.0 stable).

Patch 3 is a bug fix and should be queued for 3.1 and possibly
queued for the 3.0 stable tree.

Patches 5 & 6 increase the amount of low memory in 32 bit domains
started with < 1 GiB of RAM.  Please queue for 3.2

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
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

Changes since #2:

- New patch: xen: avoid adding non-existant memory if the reservation
  is unlimited
- Avoid using a hypercall to get the current number of pages in the
  ballon driver.  Apparently the hypercall won't return the right
  value if paging is used.
- Addresses Konrad's review comments.

David

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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
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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