Re: [Patch V5 00/16] xen: support pv-domains larger than 512GB

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On July 15, 2015 12:26:40 AM EDT, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>On 07/10/2015 03:39 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 02:47:45PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> Support 64 bit pv-domains with more than 512GB of memory.
>>>
>>> Following test have been done:
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 8GB machine
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 1TB machine (resolving p2m/E820-map conflict)
>>> - 32 bit dom0 on 8GB machine
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 8GB machine with faked kernel/E820-map conflict
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 8GB machine with faked pgtable/E820-map conflict
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 8GB machine with faked initrd/E820-map conflict
>>> - 64 bit dom0 on 8GB machine with faked p2m/E820-map conflict
>>> - 64 bit domU (sizes up to 900GB)
>>> - 32 bit domU
>>
>> Woot!
>>
>> Thank you for doing that. I noticed that you used the 'normal'
>> sizes, but nothing as odd as '3145M' or such to try to break
>> things. Not sure if it is worht it - as the test suite that
>> Boris runs does run with some odd sizes to catch this.
>
>How did you notice the domU sizes from these lines? :-)

Intuition :-)
>
>I tested with sizes being power of 2 as well as other values (e.g.
>100000 MB).
>
>> I only had one comment about the #13 patch, otherwise I think
>> we are OK with this patchset?
>
>Can I take this as an "Acked-by" for the other patches?

Yes!
>
>
>Juergen