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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] libxl: set 1GB MMIO hole for PVH



On 09/05/18 18:12, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 09/05/18 18:07, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> This prevents page-shattering, by being able to populate the RAM
>> regions below 4GB using 1GB pages, provided the guest memory size is
>> set to a multiple of a GB.
>>
>> Note that there are some special and ACPI pages in the MMIO hole that
>> will be populated using smaller order pages, but those shouldn't be
>> accessed as often as RAM regions.
> 
> Would it be possible somehow to put a potential firmware into that
> 1GB region, too, if it needs any memory in high memory? Seabios e.g.
> is taking the last RAM page of the guest for its hypercall page, which
> will again shatter GB mappings.

Clearly out of coffee, sorry. I manged to read HVM instead of PVH.

Sorry for the noise.


Juergen

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