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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix "xm restore" require 4 times amount of memory on

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix "xm restore" require 4 times amount of memory on ia64.
From: Masayuki Igawa <igawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:53:49 +0900 (JST)
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Hi,

When restoring a guest on ia64, xen tries to allocate 4 times amount
of memory as large as that of the guest.
(For example:
 If your guest memory size is 5GB, 'xm restore' will need 20GB!)

In XendCheckpoint.py, the page size is hard coded to 4KB.
That is:
    nr_pfns = (dominfo.getMemoryTarget() + 3) / 4

But page size is 16KB on ia64 system.

This patch fixes the problem.


Thanks.
-- 
Masayuki Igawa
# HG changeset patch
# User igawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Node ID 6945bc171e1c218129cc43619617dd79e0041220
# Parent  256160ff19b74057f5819af20d68e6e3388c80e3
Fix "xm restore" require 4 times amount of memory on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Masayuki Igawa <igawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 256160ff19b7 -r 6945bc171e1c tools/python/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py   Thu Aug 16 12:27:59 2007
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py   Fri Aug 17 04:10:20 2007
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@
     assert store_port
     assert console_port
 
-    nr_pfns = (dominfo.getMemoryTarget() + 3) / 4 
+    page_size_kib = xc.pages_to_kib(1)
+    nr_pfns = (dominfo.getMemoryTarget() + page_size_kib - 1) / page_size_kib 
 
     # if hvm, pass mem size to calculate the store_mfn
     image_cfg = dominfo.info.get('image', {})
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