On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:17:35AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > While using the book3s hv code on a 970 system, we quickly ran into situations > where we didn't have enough contiguous memory available to allocate a 16MB > region for the page table we need to manage the guest's memory. > > So I went ahead, cleaned up the code we currently use to preallocate RMAs and > made it usable for HPT allocation. This patch set is the result of it. As a > nice side effect, it also solves a potential security issue on 970 where we > reused the RMA of previous guests without clearing them.
Nice patches. I just have one minor comment about the 3rd patch. Now I should get in and implement support for other HPT sizes. 16MB is larger than really necessary for small guests (1GB of RAM or less), and really large guests could use a larger HPT. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
