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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/arm: support gzip compressed kernels
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:07:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441120027.26292.51.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1509011507280.2672@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 15:57 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure to see how this would work. Any call to 
> > alloc_xenheap_pages
> > should be follow by a called to free_xenheap_pages.
> > But when freeing the modules, we are using init_heap_pages.
> > I don't think they are similar.
> 
> Actually init_heap_pages is just a wrapper around free_heap_pages, like
> free_xenheap_pages. I think it is safe to call init_heap_pages, on
> memory allocated by alloc_xenheap_pages.

That probably depends on lots of things, in particular the setting of
CONFIG_SEPARATE_XENHEAP and in any case I think it should be avoided as a
matter of principal.

Also, modules are freed to the domheap not the xenheap. 

Maybe it would be best if this memory was allocated from there?

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-13 11:19 [PATCH v2 0/2] support gzipped kernels on arm Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-13 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] xen: move perform_gunzip to common Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-13 12:21   ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-01 13:56     ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-09-01 14:10       ` Jan Beulich
2015-08-13 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/arm: support gzip compressed kernels Stefano Stabellini
2015-08-13 11:35   ` Julien Grall
2015-09-01 14:57     ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-09-01 15:07       ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-09-02 11:26         ` Stefano Stabellini

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