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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 14/14] memmap: allow huge size efi memory ma

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 14/14] memmap: allow huge size efi memory map of real machine
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:43:03 +0900
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:14:44PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:

> > 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.

Here's the patch to reduce it.
While this kind of change is error prone, in this case it would result
in early panic and easy to confirm by panic message.

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yamahata

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