WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Guest-vs-Host MTRR/PAT conflict and a crash?

To: David Stone <unclestoner@xxxxxxxxx>, "Su, Disheng" <disheng.su@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen Developers <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Guest-vs-Host MTRR/PAT conflict and a crash?
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:00:55 +0000
Delivery-date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:53:57 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1a74a8410801031404p4498bd6arb398c49926afd8e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AchQt/31PEpgqryrEdyO+wAWy6hiGQ==
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Guest-vs-Host MTRR/PAT conflict and a crash?
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.6.070618
On 3/1/08 22:04, "David Stone" <unclestoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But hold on...this excercise made me realize that it appears the guest
> is programming the graphics card's BAR with an address (guest-physical
> address of 0x10000000) that is within the guest's system memory (lower
> 1GB of guest-physical address space, 0x00000000-0x40000000).  Can
> someone out there throw me a bone and tell me that I'm right in
> thinking this should never happen?

That should never happen. I wonder where it gets that address from. Perhaps
it is stupidly hardcoded somewhere?

 -- Keir



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>