* Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
@ 2012-07-26 9:29 Petr Tesarik
2012-07-26 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-26 13:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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From: Petr Tesarik @ 2012-07-26 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xen-devel
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Hello all,
while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I believe
that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what would be an
appropriate place for it.
Regards,
Petr Tesarik
SUSE Linux
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-26 9:29 Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space Petr Tesarik
@ 2012-07-26 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-26 14:08 ` George Dunlap
2012-07-27 5:41 ` Petr Tesarik
2012-07-26 13:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-07-26 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Petr Tesarik; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:29 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
> comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I believe
> that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what would be an
> appropriate place for it.
Somewhere on the wiki perhaps?
BTW I don't think Xen3 and Xen4 are the right labels, perhaps 3.4 and
4.0? The 3->4 major number change was only a number change, it didn't
signal a rearchitecting or anything like that (other than the normal
development between a release). Labelling it Xen3 and Xen4 suggests it
did.
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-26 9:29 Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space Petr Tesarik
2012-07-26 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
@ 2012-07-26 13:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2012-07-26 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Petr Tesarik; +Cc: xen-devel
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:29:21AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
> comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I believe
> that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what would be an
> appropriate place for it.
Nice!
It might be also usefull to add the PGD/PUd indexes so one knows that that
the M2P sits in 261 (and in 256), ioremap is 267, etc..
>
> Regards,
> Petr Tesarik
> SUSE Linux
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> <td class=ioremap>[16G] ioremap()/fixmap area</td>
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> <td class=addr>0xffff82c400000000<br>0xffff82c43fffffff</td>
> <td class=compat>[1G] Compatibility machine-to-phys translation table</td>
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> <td class=addr>0xffff82c440000000<br>0xffff82c47fffffff</td>
> <td class=compat>[1G] High read-only compat machine-to-phys translation table</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td class=addr>0xffff82c480000000<br>0xffff82c4bfffffff</td>
> <td class=code>[1G] Xen text, static data, bss</td>
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> <td class=addr>0xffff82c4c0000000<br>0xffff82f5ffffffff</td>
> <td class=reserved>[197G] Reserved for future use</td>
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> <td class=addr>0xffff82f600000000<br>0xffff82ffffffffff</td>
> <td class=frametable>[40G] Page-frame information array</td>
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> <td class=addr>0xffff830000000000<br>0xffff83ffffffffff</td>
> <td class=direct>[1T] 1:1 direct mapping of all physical memory</td>
> <td class=direct rowspan=2>[5T] 1:1 direct mapping of all physical memory</td>
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-26 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
@ 2012-07-26 14:08 ` George Dunlap
2012-07-26 14:10 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-27 5:41 ` Petr Tesarik
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From: George Dunlap @ 2012-07-26 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Campbell; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Petr Tesarik
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:29 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
>> comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I believe
>> that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what would be an
>> appropriate place for it.
>
> Somewhere on the wiki perhaps?
The comparison would probably go on the wiki somewhere. Do we have a
layout for memory in the documentation directory in-tree? If not,
that might be useful. But it should be only the current memory
layout, I think; a comparison is best suited to a wiki.
-George
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-26 14:08 ` George Dunlap
@ 2012-07-26 14:10 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-07-26 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: George Dunlap; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Petr Tesarik
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:08 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:29 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
> >> comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I believe
> >> that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what would be an
> >> appropriate place for it.
> >
> > Somewhere on the wiki perhaps?
>
> The comparison would probably go on the wiki somewhere. Do we have a
> layout for memory in the documentation directory in-tree? If not,
> that might be useful. But it should be only the current memory
> layout, I think; a comparison is best suited to a wiki.
There's comments in xen/include/asm-*/config.h with the layout.
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-26 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-26 14:08 ` George Dunlap
@ 2012-07-27 5:41 ` Petr Tesarik
2012-07-27 7:15 ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-27 10:02 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Petr Tesarik @ 2012-07-27 5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Campbell; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Dne Čt 26. července 2012 15:53:33 Ian Campbell napsal(a):
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:29 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
> > comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I
> > believe that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what
> > would be an appropriate place for it.
>
> Somewhere on the wiki perhaps?
Sure, I can add a page there, but nobody will find it unless I link it from
somewhere, but I'm unable to find a good place for the link.
> BTW I don't think Xen3 and Xen4 are the right labels, perhaps 3.4 and
> 4.0? The 3->4 major number change was only a number change, it didn't
> signal a rearchitecting or anything like that (other than the normal
> development between a release). Labelling it Xen3 and Xen4 suggests it
> did.
And until now I've though this was indeed the case. At least many internal
structures used by the kdump infrastructure have changed substantially between
3.4 and 4.0, while they remained the same at least from 3.0.2 to 3.4.
Anyway, why wasn't 4.0 labelled 3.5 if there was no big change?
Petr Tesarik
SUSE Linux
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-27 5:41 ` Petr Tesarik
@ 2012-07-27 7:15 ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-27 10:02 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Jan Beulich @ 2012-07-27 7:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Petr Tesarik; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Campbell
>>> On 27.07.12 at 07:41, Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> wrote:
> Anyway, why wasn't 4.0 labelled 3.5 if there was no big change?
It was until pretty late in the release process. Iirc during late 3.4
the transition to 4.0 was already done and then reverted. All of
this more for marketing/PR purposes than for technical reasons
(much like Linux'es 2.6.x -> 3.x transition).
Jan
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* Re: Proper place for an overview of Xen virtual space
2012-07-27 5:41 ` Petr Tesarik
2012-07-27 7:15 ` Jan Beulich
@ 2012-07-27 10:02 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-07-27 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Petr Tesarik; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 06:41 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> Dne Čt 26. července 2012 15:53:33 Ian Campbell napsal(a):
> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:29 +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > while working on makedumpfile support of Xen4, I made a side-by-side
> > > comparison of the Xen3 and Xen4 virtual space on x86_64 (attached). I
> > > believe that it can be useful to others as well, but I don't know what
> > > would be an appropriate place for it.
> >
> > Somewhere on the wiki perhaps?
>
> Sure, I can add a page there, but nobody will find it unless I link it from
> somewhere, but I'm unable to find a good place for the link.
It will at least mean I can answer the question "how has the memory map
changed" with a link instead of an actual explanation, and once a few
people have asked it'll start to show up on google etc due to the links
in the ML archives and so on.
You should also ensure to add it to the proper categories on the wiki so
that people searching the wiki can find it.
> Anyway, why wasn't 4.0 labelled 3.5 if there was no big change?
It's just a number and people felt like it was time. Like the Linux
2.6.x->3.x transition.
Ian.
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