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Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains |
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Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:04:36 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:52:52AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 03/03/16 10:38, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The Xen hypervisor supports starting a dom0 with large memory (up to
> > the TB range) by not including the initrd and p2m list in the initial
> > kernel mapping. Especially the p2m list can grow larger than the
> > available virtual space in the initial mapping.
> >
> > The started kernel is indicating the support of each feature via
> > elf notes.
> >
> > This series enables grub-xen to do the same as the hypervisor.
> >
> > Tested with:
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel not supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd, not p2m)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
> > - 900GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
>
> There has been no reaction for these patches for nearly 4 weeks now.
> Neither has there been any response regarding my request to include
> it in 2.02.
It looks that it will be taken into 2.02. Please check this email:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00281.html
Daniel
- [PATCH v7 04/11] xen: add elfnote.h to avoid using numbers instead of constants, (continued)
- [PATCH v7 04/11] xen: add elfnote.h to avoid using numbers instead of constants, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 07/11] xen: factor out allocation of special pages into separate function, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 11/11] xen: add capability to load p2m list outside of kernel mapping, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 05/11] xen: synchronize xen header, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 02/11] xen: avoid memleaks on error, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 03/11] xen: reduce number of global variables in xen loader, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 08/11] xen: factor out allocation of page tables into separate function, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 10/11] xen: modify page table construction, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains, Daniel Kiper, 2016/03/03
- Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/29
- Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains,
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