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[xen staging] SUPPORT.md: extend security support for x86 hosts to 12 TiB of memory



commit 8dac2928c2c1160c00dea65f9beb07656d249f3c
Author:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 9 10:54:01 2022 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Jun 9 10:54:01 2022 +0200

    SUPPORT.md: extend security support for x86 hosts to 12 TiB of memory
    
    c49ee0329ff3 ("SUPPORT.md: limit security support for hosts with very
    much memory"), as a result of XSA-385, restricted security support to
    8 TiB of host memory. While subsequently further restricted for Arm,
    extend this to 12 TiB on x86, putting in place a guest restriction to
    8 TiB (or yet less for Arm) in exchange.
    
    A 12 TiB x86 host was certified successfully for use with Xen 4.14 as
    per https://www.suse.com/nbswebapp/yesBulletin.jsp?bulletinNumber=150753.
    This in particular included running as many guests (2 TiB each) as
    possible in parallel, to actually prove that all the memory can be used
    like this. It may be relevant to note that the Optane memory there was
    used in memory-only mode, with DRAM acting as cache.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 SUPPORT.md | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index ee2cd319e2..70e98964cb 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ For the Cortex A57 r0p0 - r1p1, see Errata 832075.
 
 ### Physical Memory
 
-    Status, x86: Supported up to 8 TiB. Hosts with more memory are supported, 
but not security supported.
+    Status, x86: Supported up to 12 TiB. Hosts with more memory are supported, 
but not security supported.
     Status, Arm32: Supported up to 12 GiB
     Status, Arm64: Supported up to 2 TiB
 
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ ARM only has one guest type at the moment
 
     Status: Supported
 
+## Guest Limits
+
+### Memory
+
+    Status, x86: Supported up to 8 TiB. Guests with more memory, but less than 
16 TiB, are supported, but not security supported.
+    Status, Arm32: Supported up to 12 GiB
+    Status, Arm64: Supported up to 1 TiB
+
 ## Hypervisor file system
 
 ### Build info
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