Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: Allow Xen to boot/run on large memory (>64G) machines

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/2/07 00:38, "Chris Lalancette" <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>      Note that this is not the end of the story, however.  For even larger
> machines, it can *still* be the case that the allocation in construct_dom0()
> fails; in particular, if the order goes above 17, it will fail in the same
> way.
>  One way to fix it would be to just allocate that memory out of the normal
> zone
> for x86_64, as well; however, I'm not sure if this will break anything else.
> Any comments?

If there are no users of alloc_boot_pages() expecting low memory to be
returned then we can adjust the implementation of that existing function
rather than introduce a new one.

As for domain_build() there are two considerations: firstly that the
allocation is contiguous and secondly that it is from the DMA pool. The
builder makes simplifying assumptions based on contiguity. The allocation
from DMA pool I think I've tried to get rid of before -- I think I was
scuppered by something as simple as the PAE pgdir needing to be allocated
from low memory. I think we can stop allocating from the DMA pool, at least
for non-PAE host.

 -- Keir



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