xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, tim@xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xen: arm: move magic pfns out of guest RAM region
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:52:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53440D33.1070705@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396966760-7752-2-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>

Hi Ian,

On 04/08/2014 03:19 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Because toolstacks (at least libxl) only allow RAM to be specified in 1M
> increments these two pages were effectively costing 1M of guest RAM space.
> 
> Since these pages don't actually need to live in RAM just move them out.
> 
> With this a guest can now use the full 768M of the address space reserved
> for RAM. (ok, not that impressive, but it simplifies things later)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> ---
>  tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c      |   10 +++++-----
>  xen/include/public/arch-arm.h |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
> index c085b4a..36b1487 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c
> @@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ static int setup_pgtables_arm(struct xc_dom_image *dom)
>  static int alloc_magic_pages(struct xc_dom_image *dom)
>  {
>      int rc, i;
> +    const xen_pfn_t base = GUEST_MAGIC_BASE >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>      xen_pfn_t p2m[NR_MAGIC_PAGES];
> -

Spurious change?

Apart this minor question:
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>

-- 
Julien Grall

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-08 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-08 14:18 [PATCH 0/4] xen: arm: support up to (almost) 1TB of guest RAM Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] tools: arm: report an error if the guest RAM is too large Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 14:50   ` Julien Grall
2014-04-08 14:55   ` Julien Grall
2014-04-08 15:06     ` Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 15:16       ` Julien Grall
2014-04-08 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] xen: arm: move magic pfns out of guest RAM region Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 14:52   ` Julien Grall [this message]
2014-04-08 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] xen: arm: rearrange guest physical address space to increase max RAM Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 15:12   ` Julien Grall
2014-04-08 15:22     ` Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 16:01       ` Julien Grall
2014-04-09  7:59         ` Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 14:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] xen: arm: support up to (almost) 1TB of guest RAM Ian Campbell
2014-04-08 15:35   ` Julien Grall
2014-04-08 15:43     ` Ian Campbell

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=53440D33.1070705@linaro.org \
    --to=julien.grall@linaro.org \
    --cc=ian.campbell@citrix.com \
    --cc=stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com \
    --cc=tim@xen.org \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xen.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).