From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Xen Developers <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: several Qs about domain live migration
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:47:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5483FCC.1F51D%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49228C4A.4090205@intel.com>
On 18/11/08 09:35, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com> wrote:
> Keir,
> As my test, video mem and vlapic page are okay, but share page is
> still treated as ram.
>
> After going through the source code, I think this should be "no harm".
> Although xc_domain_restore populate a new share page first, PV driver
> in HVM guest will remap share page when resume, thus destroying
> previous mapping and releasing previous page.
>
> So we want to use this simple patch, or mark the share page "not ram"?
It's fine. The shared page mapping is not set up until after normal guest
memory is restored. So it's safe.
-- Keir
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 6:50 several Qs about domain live migration Tian, Kevin
2008-11-17 7:45 ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-17 7:49 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-17 8:40 ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-17 8:46 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-11-18 1:17 ` Zhai, Edwin
2008-11-18 8:13 ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-18 8:22 ` Zhai, Edwin
2008-11-18 9:12 ` Keir Fraser
2008-11-18 9:35 ` Zhai, Edwin
2008-11-18 9:47 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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