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[Xen-devel] Re: xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3)

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: xen: memory initialization/balloon fixes (#3)
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:49 +0100
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On 21/09/11 18:11, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:29:21PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>>
>> Patch 7 releases all pages in the initial allocation with PFNs that
>> lie within a 1-1 mapping.  This seems correct to me as I think that
> 
> The only thing I remember about this was with dmidecode doing something
> fishy.. (As in, it wouldn't work when the pages under 1MB were released)
> (But I can't remember the details about it, so I might be completly
> wrong).
> 
> Could you please test that as well?

dmidecode works on the two test boxes I had to hand.

>> once the 1-1 mapping is set the MFN of the original page is lost so
>> it's no longer accessible by the kernel (and it cannot be used by
>> another domain

David

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