Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] hvmloader: avoid tests when they would clobber used memory

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

On 18/05/17 11:19, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 16/05/17 11:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > First of all limit the memory range used for testing to 4Mb: There's no
> > point placing page tables right above 8Mb when they can equally well
> > live at the bottom of the chunk at 4Mb - rep_io_test() cares about the
> > 5Mb...7Mb range only anyway. In a subsequent patch this will then also
> > allow simply looking for an unused 4Mb range (instead of using a build
> > time determined one).
> >
> > Extend the "skip tests" condition beyond the "is there enough memory"
> > question.
> >
> > Reported-by: Charles Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Gary Lin <glin@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As already identified, I'm not convinced that these tests should stay,
> but for older releases, they shouldn't exhibit this failure mode.
Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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