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

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxc: lzma build fix"):
> The physmem value calculated by this function is only used as an
> argument to lzma_alone_decoder, it is divided by 3 to get the memory
> limit for the decoder.

I hadn't spotted that.  I should have looked more closely.

> It's not clear to me 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.

It's dom0's "physmem", so not the whole system, but yes.

> Why not just hardcode 32M or something? A quick scan through the
> rdepends on Debian shows at least a couple of users doing so.

Yes, we could revert this patch and hardcode a value.  32M seems
plausible.

Ian.

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