Re: FreeBSD Xen PV i386 -- 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Bruno
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:01 -0700, K. Macy wrote:
 It's an artifact of the initialization code and how the xen domain
 builder configures the initial mapped memory. I've come against this
 and fixed this issue in the past but I guess either the domain builder
 has changed or the initial code has bit rotted. I can't commit so ask
 Colin if he can fix.
 
 Cheers 

I have one of those commit bits if you have something in mind.

sean

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Re: FreeBSD Xen PV i386 -- 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread K. Macy
It's an artifact of the initialization code and how the xen domain builder
configures the initial mapped memory. I've come against this and fixed this
issue in the past but I guess either the domain builder has changed or the
initial code has bit rotted. I can't commit so ask Colin if he can fix.

Cheers

On Tuesday, July 26, 2011, Sean Bruno sean...@yahoo-inc.com wrote:
 I note that if I scale the i386 PV Xen kernel past 855MB, I get an insta
 panic at boot.  I assume that there's a hard limit on the amount of RAMS
 we can use here?

 Using config file ./ref8-xen32.
 Started domain ref8-xen32 (id=133)
 WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
 GDB: no debug ports present
 KDB: debugger backends: ddb
 KDB: current backend: ddb
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 FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1 r224449: Tue Jul 26 09:53:36 PDT 2011

 sbr...@ref8-xen32.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/8/sys/XEN
i386
 WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
 panic: pmap_init: page table page is out of range
 cpuid = 0
 KDB: enter: panic
 [thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
 Stopped at  0xc010e68a: movl$0,0xc03f20b4


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