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Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/PVH: improve Dom0 memory size calculation
- To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:30:07 +0200
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On 31.08.2021 16:07, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 30/08/2021 14:03, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Assuming that the accounting for IOMMU page tables will also take care
>> of the P2M needs was wrong: dom0_paging_pages() can determine a far
>> higher value, high enough for the system to run out of memory while
>> setting up Dom0. Hence in the case of shared page tables the larger of
>> the two values needs to be used (without shared page tables the sum of
>> both continues to be applicable).
>
> I'm afraid that I can't follow this at all.
>
> What causes the system to run out of RAM while constructing dom0?
Without any "dom0_mem=" we set aside 128Mb. In my .config that was in
use I default to "dom0_mem=-255". Yet this was still far from enough to
cover the gap between the original IOMMU page table accounting and the
value returned from dom0_paging_pages(). Since this is what also gets
used to actually populate Dom0's P2M pool, with the P2M pool populated
there wasn't enough RAM anymore to reach the Dom0 size which
dom0_compute_nr_pages() did establish.
Putting it in a simplified formula, what we did so far when sharing
page tables was
RAM = total - IOMMU
but what we need is
RAM = total - max(IOMMU, P2M)
In the non-shared case we already correctly did
RAM = total - (IOMMU + P2M)
Jan
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