Re: [PATCH V2 0/3] xen: remove some memory limits from pv-domains

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

On 09/17/2014 04:43 PM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 17/09/14 05:12, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> When a Xen pv-domain is booted the initial memory map contains multiple
>> objects in the top 2 GB including the initrd and the p2m list. This
>> limits the supported maximum size of the initrd and the maximum
>> memory size the p2m list can span is limited to about 500 GB.
>>
>> Xen however supports loading the initrd without mapping it and the
>> initial p2m list can be mapped by Xen to an arbitrary selected virtual
>> address. The following patches activate those options and thus remove
>> the limitations.
>>
>> It should be noted that the p2m list limitation isn't only affecting
>> the amount of memory a pv domain can use, but it also hinders Dom0 to
>> be started on physical systems with larger memory without reducing it's
>> memory via a Xen boot parameter. By mapping the initial p2m list to
>> an area not in the top 2 GB it is now possible to boot Dom0 on such
>> systems.
>>
>> It would be desirable to be able to use more than 512 GB in a pv
>> domain, but this would require a reorganization of the p2m tree built
>> by the kernel at boot time. As this reorganization would affect the
>> Xen tools and kexec, too, it is not included in this patch set. This
>> topic can be addressed later.
>>
>> Juergen Gross (3):
>>    xen: sync some headers with xen tree
>>    xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling
>
> I've applied these two to devel/for-linus-3.18.
>
> Thanks.

Thanks, too. :-)


Juergen