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[Xen-devel] Yet another "Why can't I see all my RAM" question

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Yet another "Why can't I see all my RAM" question
From: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:28:59 -0500
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I know this has been asked a million times, and the typical answer is: that specific area of unallocable memory is used for ACPI data and framebuffers. However, I've got two identical machines, one running Xen-PAE, one running vanilla 2.6.16:

Vanilla:
MemTotal:     16623588 kB

Xen(PAE)
total_memory: 14336 (MB)

I was a little disappointed to discover that my investment in RAM is going to be underutilized in Xen. I would think if vanilla Linux can utilize all the available RAM that Xen would be able to, also.

(XEN) WARNING: Only the first 16 GB of the physical memory map can be accessed
(XEN)          by Xen in 32-bit mode. Truncating the memory map...
(XEN) Physical RAM map:
(XEN)  0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
(XEN)  000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
(XEN)  00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
(XEN)  0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)
(XEN)  000000007fff0000 - 000000007ffff000 (ACPI data)
(XEN)  000000007ffff000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI NVS)
(XEN)  00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
(XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000400000000 (usable)
(XEN) System RAM: 14335MB (14679612kB)
(XEN) Xen heap: 9MB (10044kB)
(XEN) Using scheduler: Simple EDF Scheduler (sedf)
(XEN) PAE enabled, limit: 16 GB
(XEN) found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
(XEN) DMI 2.3 present.
(XEN) Using APIC driver default
(XEN) ACPI: RSDP (v002 ACPIAM                                ) @ 0x000f9760
(XEN) ACPI: XSDT (v001 A M I OEMXSDT 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7fff0100 (XEN) ACPI: FADT (v003 A M I OEMFACP 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7fff0281 (XEN) ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7fff0380 (XEN) ACPI: SPCR (v001 A M I OEMSPCR 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7fff0410 (XEN) ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffff040 (XEN) ACPI: SRAT (v001 A M I OEMSRAT 0x08000508 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7fff3550 (XEN) ACPI: DSDT (v001 H8DAR H8DAR010 0x00000000 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
...
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 0000000007800000->0000000008000000 (63488 pages to be allocated)
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN)  Loaded kernel: c0100000->c06152e4
(XEN)  Init. ramdisk: c0616000->c0616000
(XEN)  Phys-Mach map: c0616000->c0656000
(XEN)  Start info:    c0656000->c0657000
(XEN)  Page tables:   c0657000->c0660000
(XEN)  Boot stack:    c0660000->c0661000
(XEN)  TOTAL:         c0000000->c0800000
(XEN)  ENTRY ADDRESS: c0100000

So what's the scoop here? Has anyone actually been able to use the full 16GB in PAE mode? Is there something I can tweak to get that final 1GB back?

Thanks,
-Chris


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