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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/18] xenpaging changes for 4.0

To: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/18] xenpaging changes for 4.0
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:05:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Olaf --

Since you have obviously become an expert user of xenpaging,
any chance you could write brief how-to documentation for it
and maybe add a file to xen.hg/docs/misc?

Thanks,
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:12 AM
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/18] xenpaging changes for 4.0
> 
> 
> Here are some changes for xenpaging in the 4.0 branch.
> 
> Its just for review and comments.  All changes are also needed for
> xen-unstable, I will prepare a patch queue also for this branch.
> 
> There are still issues with xenpaging.
> My testsetup is a SLES11 SP1 guest with runlevel 6 as default runlevel
> to
> trigger automatic reboot.  After a few iterations, there will be MMIO
> emulation
> errors.  This happens with a startup delay of 15.0 seconds.
> 
> Another issue:
> If the startup delay is 0.0, and over_allocated in hvmloader mem_alloc
> is
> forced to be active, the ASSERT in p2m_remove_page() triggers. This is
> because
> the passed mfn and the mfn returned by ->get_entry() do not match.  So
> far I
> have no idea where the appearently missing set_gpfn_from_mfn() should
> go to.
> Normally over_allocated is not set because the XENMEM_populate_physmap
> call
> does not fail.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> 
> 
> 
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