Re: [PATCH 5/5] xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Aug 08 2024 - 11:03:28 EST


On 08.08.2024 16:42, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 07.08.24 14:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Even without that I wonder in how far tools (kexec?) may be misguided by
>> relocating non-RAM memory ranges. Even more so when stuff traditionally
>> living below the 4G boundary suddenly moves far beyond that.
>
> I don't think kexec is working in PV mode.

I wasn't thinking of in-Dom0 kexec, but about host one. Iirc the kexec tool
will collect information it needs from various data sources, not uniformly
everything from the hypervisor. But I may be wrong with this.

Jan