Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 14/14] memmap: allow huge size efi memory map of real machine

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:32:28PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

> Even with that fix, my system hangs at the xfree(fw_tables) call near
> the end of this chunk.  If I skip that xfree(), we hang at the next call
> to xfree.  Looks like we corrupted memory somewhere, but I haven't found
> it yet.

Thanks for debugging and sorry for those bugs.
Although I reviewed the patch, I've not found memory corruption yet.
I attached my current clean up patch for those who want to debug it.


> In this case NUM_MEM_DESCS should be very small since it's only adding
> the descriptors we add for xen and the rest is dynamically sized based
> on the number of entries in the MDT provided by firmware.  Thanks,

I'll postpone reducing NUM_MEM_DESCS until memory corruption fix.

-- 
yamahata

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