Re: [Xen-devel] page ref/type count overflows

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/01/2009 16:15, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I'm going to change both and do it the easy way, growing the structure from
>> 40 to 48 bytes. You can shrink it again with the tricks you describe if
>> you're keen. I'm not sure how ugly the list stuff would end up, which would
>> be my main concern, but I suppose you can hide it behind list.h-style
>> macros. I don't see there's much duplication of effort to phase the work
>> like this.
> 
> No word on the question regarding the below-4G restriction of the Xen heap?

Got rid of it. It was only needed for the pickle_domptr() thing, as you
suspected.

> Also, what's the purpose of those (_domain & 1) checks in unpickle_domptr()?

Introduced by shadow2 code, and I think it's never been needed. I'm going to
nuke it, but I will be checking some other things with the shadow code
maintainers so I'll double check that too.

 -- Keir



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