Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] Boot PV guests with more than128GB (v1) for 3.7

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Jul 27 2012 - 03:34:13 EST


>>> On 26.07.12 at 22:47, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2). Allocate a new array, copy the existing P2M into it,
> revector the P2M tree to use that, and return the old
> P2M to the memory allocate. This has the advantage that
> it sets the stage for using XEN_ELF_NOTE_INIT_P2M
> feature. That feature allows us to set the exact virtual
> address space we want for the P2M - and allows us to
> boot as initial domain on large machines.

And I would hope that the tools would get updated to recognize
this note too, so that huge DomU-s would become possible as
well.

Jan

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