Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 10/10] xen: add capability to load p2m list outside of kernel mapping

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 06:19:37PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Modern pvops linux kernels support a p2m list not covered by the
> kernel mapping. This capability is flagged by an elf-note specifying
> the virtual address the kernel is expecting the p2m list to be mapped
> to.
>
> In case the elf-note is set by the kernel don't place the p2m list
> into the kernel mapping, but map it to the given address. This will
> allow to support domains with larger memory, as the kernel mapping is
> limited to 2GB and a domain with huge memory in the TB range will have
> a p2m list larger than this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>

Daniel

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