On 22/08/17 12:28, Andre Przywara wrote:
Hi,
Hi Andre,
On 14/08/17 15:23, Julien Grall wrote:
The only way alloc_boot_pages will return 0 is during the error case.
This statement is not true. If alloc_boot_pages() returns, it has
succeeded. Returning 0 is nothing special.
Although, Xe
Hi,
On 14/08/17 15:23, Julien Grall wrote:
> The only way alloc_boot_pages will return 0 is during the error case.
This statement is not true. If alloc_boot_pages() returns, it has
succeeded. Returning 0 is nothing special.
> Although, Xen will panic in the error path. So the check in the caller
>>> On 14.08.17 at 16:23, wrote:
> The only way alloc_boot_pages will return 0 is during the error case.
> Although, Xen will panic in the error path. So the check in the caller
> is pointless.
>
> Looking at the loop, my understanding is it will try to allocate in
> smaller chunk if a bigger chu
The only way alloc_boot_pages will return 0 is during the error case.
Although, Xen will panic in the error path. So the check in the caller
is pointless.
Looking at the loop, my understanding is it will try to allocate in
smaller chunk if a bigger chunk fail. Given that alloc_boot_pages can
never
