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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] Boot PV guests with more than 128GB (v1) for 3.7



On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 08:34 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 26.07.12 at 22:47, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> >>> wrote:
> >  2). Allocate a new array, copy the existing P2M into it,
> >     revector the P2M tree to use that, and return the old
> >     P2M to the memory allocate. This has the advantage that
> >     it sets the stage for using XEN_ELF_NOTE_INIT_P2M
> >     feature. That feature allows us to set the exact virtual
> >     address space we want for the P2M - and allows us to
> >     boot as initial domain on large machines.
> 
> And I would hope that the tools would get updated to recognize
> this note too, so that huge DomU-s would become possible as
> well.

Does this help us with >160GB 32 bit PV guests too? I'm guessing not
since the real limitation there is the relatively small amount of kernel
address space.


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