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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxc: lzma build fix

>>> On 28.01.11 at 19:51, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> libxc: Do not use host physmem as parameter to lzma decoder
> 
> It's not clear why a userspace lzma decode would want to use that
> particular value, what bearing it has on anything or why it would
> assume it could use 1/3 of the total RAM in the system (potentially
> quite a large amount of RAM) as opposed to any other limit number.
> 
> Instead, hardcode 32Mby.

Has anyone of you actually tested this? I don't get lzma to work
with this set to less than 128Mb, and xz's configure.ac also sort
of states this to be a minimal requirement for arbitrary input.

> This reverts 22830:c80960244942, removes the xc_get_physmem/physmem
> function entirely, and replaces the expression at the call site with a
> fixed constant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>

Jan


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