Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC Patch] Support for making an E820 PCI hole in toolstack (xl + xm)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:20:00PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 17:03 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >  2). It is much simple to parse the E820 in the Linux kernel[...]
> 
> The ability to ingest an e820 from the hypervisor is also needed for
> dom0 to consume the host e820 so it's not like there is additional code
> on the kernel side to cope with this.

There is a bit. We need to decouple the info->nr_pages magic that is used
throughout the code b/c we are treating that value as a 'last pfn'. With
the offset, we need to be more careful about it.

P.S.
(devel code, probably going to post a refresh today):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git devel/e820-hole

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