Re: [PATCH] reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB on 32-bit

[Alexander van Heukelum]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:44:36 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> > 
> > My first guess is that the BIOS data area is completely non-existent for
> > Xen.
> > Is it guaranteed that the memory is zeroed out on boot? In that case we
> > can
> > special-case it easily:
> > 
> > change:
> >         /* Paranoia: should never happen, but... */
> >         if (lowmem >= 0x100000)
> >                 lowmem = 0xa0000;
> > 
> > into:
> >         /* Strange case, like Xen ;) */
> >         if (lowmem == 0 || lowmem >= 0x100000)
> >                 lowmem = 0x9f000;
> > 
> > Can you test that?
> > 
> 
> The EBDA is optional anyway; I presume it should have a zero pointer if 
> it isn't present.

Correct, but the value that indicates the size of the conventional
memory
area must be set. At least on any real hardware. My guess is that both
values read as 0 on Xen, which causes 0-0x100000 to be reserved. If that
is always the case the workaround is fine, I think.

Alexander

> 	-hpa
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