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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
To: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Can't see more than 3.5GB of RAM / UEFI / no e820 memory map detected
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:17:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC5BCFCF.49F7F%keir@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bcb6194956c235510cd981003ba7e999@abpni.co.uk>

On 23/08/2012 10:50, "Jonathan Tripathy" <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23.08.2012 10:43, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> On 23/08/2012 09:58, "Jonathan Tripathy" <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>>> What does your RAM map look like now from early Xen boot, using
>>>> no-real-mode? It shouldn't be "Xen-e801" any more at least, else
>>>> the
>>>> no-real-mode parameter isn't working.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Still Xen-e801, so it looks like no-real-mode isn't working :(
>> 
>> Grrr it's been broken since tboot support went in, long ago. Going to
>> have
>> to fix that and backport to 4.1 and 4.0 branches...
>> 
>>  -- Keir
> 
> Just for info, is it safe to use no-real-mode on a production system?
> Please keep in mind that our DomUs are untrusted. Or would it be better
> if I created a patch to change the order of the if block to prefer the
> multi-boot memory map?

No-real-mode is perfectly safe to use from that point of view -- it will
have no impact on safe containment of untrusted DomU's.

However, of course it is nice to not have to rely on no-real-mode, so please
try switching the ordring of that if block.

 -- Keir

> Thanks
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-23 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-23  9:50 Can't see more than 3.5GB of RAM / UEFI / no e820 memory map detected Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23 11:17 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
     [not found] <50356E43.3030208@abpni.co.uk>
2012-08-22 23:48 ` Can't see more than 3.5GB of RAM Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23  6:06   ` Can't see more than 3.5GB of RAM / UEFI / no e820 memory map detected Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-08-23  7:22     ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-08-23  7:27       ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23  7:39         ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-23  8:07           ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-24 15:35             ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-24 17:39               ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-24 20:05                 ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-28 19:36                   ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-28 21:10                     ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-28 21:13                       ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-28 21:37                         ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-28 21:41                         ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-28 21:50                           ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-28 21:52                             ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-28 22:05                               ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-28 22:31                             ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-28 22:33                               ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23  8:12         ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-23  8:28           ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23  8:43             ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-23  8:49               ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-23  8:58               ` Jonathan Tripathy
2012-08-23  9:43                 ` Keir Fraser
2012-08-23  9:13             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen

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