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Re: [PATCH] SUPPORT.MD: Correct the amount of physical memory supported for Arm



On 27/04/2022 14:51, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
Hi Julien,

Hi Bertrand,

On 27 Apr 2022, at 14:22, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

As part of XSA-385, SUPPORT.MD gained a statement regarding the amount
of physical memory supported.

However, booting Xen on a Arm platform with that amount of memory would
result to a breakage because the frametable area is too small.

The wiki [1] (as of April 2022) claims we were able to support up to
5 TiB on Arm64 and 16 GiB. However, this is not the case because
the struct page_info has always been bigger than expected (56 bytes
for 64-bit and 32-bytes for 32-bit).

I don't have any HW with such amount of memory. So rather than
modifying the code, take the opportunity to use the limit that should
work on Arm (2 TiB for 64-bit and 12 GiB for 32-bit).

Sadly I have no hardware either even remotely near this capacity and
I think those limits are right for now so...


Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx> #arm part

Thanks! The changes requested by Jan are easy to fix. So instead of resubmitting, I have done the modifications and committed the patch directly.

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall



 


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