Re: [RFC PATCH 08/35] Add Xen-specific memory management definitions

From: Keir Fraser
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 03:08:41 EST



On 15 May 2006, at 07:44, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

I'm sure you considered this, but decided to be tricky. Why?
No way to find the safe number of machine pages in a guest?

We want to allow holes in the table if RAM is sparse. That code shouldn't ever fail after the guest has installed a page-fault handler. If you can make it do so (was it i386 or x86/64?) we're interested in seeing the full crash output.

-- Keir

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