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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH v2.0 0/6] Add memory add support to Xen

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH v2.0 0/6] Add memory add support to Xen
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:38:13 +0100
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On 10/07/2009 09:32, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> This for x86/64 guests of course. We already established that compat
>> guests and memory add are going to have lesser mutual support.
> 
>  I checked this before and I thought it is ok.
> Currently the machine_to_phys_order is caculated based on return value of
> XENMEM_machphys_mapping. For both x86_32 and non-compat x86_64, this size will
> not be adjusted dynamically, so it is ok (it will cover the whole possible
> range).
> The only issue is for compatible domain. For compatible domain, the value
> returned in XENMEM_machphys_mapping is adjusted (i.e.
> MACH2PHYS_COMPAT_VIRT_START(d)). However, domain_clamp_alloc_bitsize() in
> domainheap allocator will make sure the hot-added memory will not be assigned
> to the guest.
> 
> Did I miss-understand something?

Sounds okay to me. Perhaps Jan has other thoughts?

 -- Keir



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