[Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][RFC] fix dom0 builder TAKE3

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

>    Yes, I think we'll need to switch to discontig/sparsemem for the dom0
> kernel if the memmory map is going to reflect the bare metal hardware
> memory layout.  Unfortunately, just switching to discontig w/ virtual
> memmap does not solve the problem I'm seeing.  The dom0 kernel reports
> the correct amount of memory early in bootup.  Perhaps the balloon
> driver is causing this(?)  Thanks,

I looked into balloon driver and found that it doesn't take care of
sparsely populated memory.
How about those patches?

- dom0_initrd_start.patch
  changed dom0's initrd image load area so that it follows start info.
  It becomes non-sense to use dom0_size if dom0 memoy is assigned sparsely.
- fix_dom0_builder.patch
  fix dom0 builder so that xen doesn't assign memory on I/O area.
- convmem_end.patch
  split the meaning of struct domain::maxmem into struct
  arch_domain::convmem_end so that maxmem means the number of pages which
  domain has and convmem_end means the highest address of conventional
  memory (i.e. RAM).
- max_mapnr_config_flatmem.patch
  remove warning when !CONFIG_FLATMEM moving max_mapnr declaration.
- sparse_contiugous_bitmap.patch
  allocate contiguous_bitmap sparsely like virtual memmap.
  With dom0 memory assignment changed, memory might be sparse, so simple bitmap
  may waste too much memory.
- fix_balloon_init.patch
  make balloon driver not return pages which are in
  [xen_start_info->nr_pages, max_pfn] on ia64.
  On ia64 memory might be assigned sparsely. In that case
  xen_start_info->nr_pages and max_pfn doesn't match while pages which are in
  [xen_start_info->nr_pages, max_pfn] are used.

-- 
yamahata

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