[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/8] xen/setup: Set identity mapping for non-RAM E820 and E820 gaps.
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:48 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > We walk the E820 region and start at 0 (for PV guests we start > at ISA_END_ADDRESS) I was trying to figure out what any of this had to do with HVM guests, but you mean as opposed to dom0, which with my pedant hat on is also a guest ;-). > and skip any E820 RAM regions. For all other > regions and as well the gaps we set them to be identity mappings. > > The reasons we do not want to set the identity mapping from 0-> > ISA_END_ADDRESS when running as PV is b/c that the kernel would > try to read DMI information and fail (no permissions to read that). The reason for this special case is that in domU we have already punched a hole from 640k-1M into the e820 which the hypervisor gave us. Should we perhaps be doing this identity mapping before we punch that extra hole? i.e. setup ID mappings based on the hypervisors idea of the guest e820 not the munged one we subsequently magicked up? Only the original e820 is going to bear any possible resemblance to the identity pages which the guest can actually see. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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