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Re: [Xen-devel] x86-64's contig_initmem_init


On 30 Aug 2005, at 15:07, Keir Fraser wrote:

The tail part of the initial mapping has no special handling on i386 nor on x86_64. It just gets freed up when we free from 0 up to max_pfn, and it never gets reserved (the reserved region precisely covers kernel text/data and initial page tables).

Actually, that could be another bug on x86/64 -- I may need to truncate the initial mapping, or we may be ending up with spurious extra writable mappings to some pages... I'll take a look and see if this is the case.

Okay, I see what you mean. init_memory_mapping() sets start_pfn to something after the domain-builder-provided mapping. So we probably lose around 4MB of RAM per domain on x86/64.... that'll have to be fixed. I didn't originally write this code, btw. ;-)

i386 does not have this concept of an initial/kernel mapping separate from the 1:1 mapping of all phys mem. So this particular problem cannot occur.

 -- Keir


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