Re: brk patches..

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
> > (To be specific: I reshape the guest e820 table so that it doesn't have
> > memory in any forbidden areas of the host e820 table.  That may require
> > moving the pseudo-physical address of pages into a new overflow e820
> > entry, which would also require allocating pages for the p2m radix tree.)
> >
> >     
>
> Isn't that the domain builder's job?
>   

No.  It just provides a flat memory map from 0-max_pfn.  I want to avoid 
the overlap between pseudo-phys and machine memory so that the resource 
manager doesn't get confused by overlapping ranges, and so that it 
places the pci window in the same place as native.

   J
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