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[Xen-devel] Re: memsize for HVM save/restore

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: memsize for HVM save/restore
From: "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:13:18 +0800
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:18:44PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 24/3/07 11:37, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > But then qemu broke, because it also require the memsize to locate the share
> > page. We can't use the previous method, as it requires a lot of changes in
> > qemu.
> 
> Doesn't your new 'general layout' patch put the PFNs of xenstore, ioreq,
> buffered_ioreq in the saved image, and restore in xc_hvm_restore? Qemu-dm

yes,

> should obtain the addresses via HVMOP_get_param.
> 
> You do not need the memsize parameter.

I don't think so.
Besides locating PFNs, memsize is also used in QEMU for other purpose, such as 
bitmap allocation, dev init and map_foreign*. So memsize is a must for qemu 
init.

See following code in xc_hvm_build:
if ( v_end > HVM_BELOW_4G_RAM_END )
    shared_page_nr = (HVM_BELOW_4G_RAM_END >> PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
else
    shared_page_nr = (v_end >> PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;

So it's impossible to get memsize by saved PFNs when restore a big memory guest.

 
> 
>  -- Keir
> 

-- 
best rgds,
edwin

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