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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fix linker scripts on ppc hosts


From: Alexander Graf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fix linker scripts on ppc hosts
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:43:11 +0100

On 20.12.2011, at 17:33, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 20 December 2011 16:29, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 20.12.2011, at 17:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 14 December 2011 01:43, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> +unsigned long reserved_va = 0xf7000000;
>>> 
>>> So why 0xf7000000 rather than the whole of the 32 bit space?
>>> 
>>> (In particular for ARM targets we want to be able to mmap
>>> at 0xFFFFxxxx...)
>> 
>> Because that didn't work for me. We still need the commpage
>> above our reserved memory range, so this was the highest value
>> that was safe for me.
> 
> Hmm, that suggests we didn't get the interaction of the commpage
> with the reserved range right -- the commpage is part of the
> guest memory space so it should be OK for it to be inside
> the reserved range.

That is very likely. Right now we take the reserved range and then put the 
commpage above it, not guaranteeing that nothing is there. I don't see what 
other way to do it if we want to be able to reserve less than all 32 bits of 
virtual address space (which might not be available!)


Alex




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