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Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains
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Daniel Kiper |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:05:18 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:38:05AM +0100, 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.
Looks good to me. Thanks for doing the work!
I think that maybe it is worth trying to include this
in 2.02 release. If you wish please ask about that
in this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00047.html
thread. CC me if you do that.
Daniel
- [PATCH v7 09/11] xen: add capability to load initrd outside of initial mapping, (continued)
- [PATCH v7 09/11] xen: add capability to load initrd outside of initial mapping, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [PATCH v7 06/11] xen: factor out p2m list allocation into separate function, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/03
- [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 <=
- Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains, Juergen Gross, 2016/03/29