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[Xen-devel] Are linker scripts needed?



In alt.bk.changesets.1.1508 Keir wrote:

Some more ioemu config hardcoding. Our 'target arch' is always i386.
Do we really need linker scripts??
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, we do need linker scripts to support VMX guests with large memory (> 256MB). Without the linker scripts, we found instabilities with a 512MB guest.

The reason for this is, qemu is mapping all of guest physical in it's address space. The linker script moves all of the qemu text/data/stack to the upper part of the user virtual to leave a large enough hole for mapping guest physical using xc_map_foreign.

Our intention is to use qemu for i386, x86-64 and ia64. The "target-i386-dm" is a misnomer and inherited from upstream. I should probably kill the concept of a "target architecture" since ioemu is cpu architecture independent right now.

        -Arun


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