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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fixing 1G page allocation algorithm in libxc

To: Haitao Shan <maillists.shan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fixing 1G page allocation algorithm in libxc
From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:33:32 +0000
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
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Good catch.  Thanks!

Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

 -George

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Haitao Shan <maillists.shan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Keir,
>
> This patch fixes 1G page allocation algorithm in libxc.
>
> Currently, cur_pages (which is used as index into page_array for
> fetching gfns) is used to judge whether it is proper here to allocated
> 1G pages. However, cur_pages == page_array[cur_pages] only holds true
> when it is below 4G. When it is above 4G, page_array[cur_pages] -
> cur_pages = 256M.
> As a result, when guest has 10G memory, 8 1G-pages are allocated. But
> only 2 of them have their corresponding gfns 1G aligned. The other 6
> are forced to split to 2M pages, as their starting gfns are 4G+256M,
> 5G+256M .................
>
> Inside the patch, true gfns are used instead of cur_pages to fix this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shan Haitao <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Shan Haitao
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