On 24/10/17 12:09, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 23/10/17 11:20, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 06/10/17 15:30, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 27/09/17 15:36, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:02:56PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>>> Long ago domains to be saved were limited to 1TB size due to the
>>>>> migration stream v1 limitations which used a 32 bit value for the
>>>>> PFN and the frame type (4 bits) leaving only 28 bits for the PFN.
>>>>>
>>>>> Migration stream V2 uses a 64 bit value for this purpose, so there
>>>>> is no need to refuse saving (or migrating) domains larger than 1 TB.
>>>>>
>>>>> For 32 bit toolstacks there is still a size limit, as domains larger
>>>>> than about 1TB will lead to an exhausted virtual address space of the
>>>>> saving process. So keep the test for 32 bit, but don't base it on the
>>>>> page type macros. As a migration could lead to the situation where a
>>>>> 32 bit toolstack would have to handle such a large domain (in case the
>>>>> sending side is 64 bit) the same test should be added for restoring a
>>>>> domain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
>>>> I will leave this to Andrew.
>>>>
>>>> I don't really have an opinion here.
>>>
>>> I will wait Andrew feedback before giving a release ack on this patch.
>> Andrew?
> 
> Sorry - this completely fell off my radar.
> 
> This is probably fine overall.

Julien, are you fine with the patch now?


Juergen

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