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
next prev parent 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
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