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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch] increase xen-heap-size basedon nodes-shift

To: "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch] increase xen-heap-size basedon nodes-shift
From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:57:43 +0200
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote:
> >>
> >>    Unfortunately it breaks VTi domains somehow.  My system hangs when
> I
> >> try to xm create one.  Thanks,
> >
> >Thats bizarre given it's a simple heap increase. However I cannot help
> >debug this right now as I don't have a box with VT to play with right
> >now.
> >
> [Zhang, Xing Z] 
> Hi Sorensen, I have some comments on this patch. I noticed you increase
> xen heap to 256M. But current xen heap is 64M TR mapped ( use
> KERNEL_TR_PAGE_SHIFT macro in xen/arch/linux-xen/head.S). So Xen has
> 256M heap but 64M TR mapping area with your patch, this should be reason
> why VTI hang. Not only VTI, I think XenU has same issue because struct
> vcpu located in xen heap and it must be TR mapped.
> Maybe boot more XenU guests will show the issue. 
This is certainly the reason of the crash!

Tristan.

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