On Dec 7, 2007 7:38 PM, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Izik Eidus wrote:
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> >>
> >>> Currently, the -kernel option is not working.
> >>>
> >>> Reason is, because we're registering chunks for regions 0-0xa0000 and
> >>> 0x100000-ram_size, the phys_ram_addr + PA is broken.
> >>
> >> I think this patch is a reasonable work-around but the long term
> >> solution is probably going to have to be making sure that nothing
> >> makes the phys_ram_addr + PA assumption.  With > 4GB of memory, this
> >> assumption is broken because of the BIOS/PCI holes anyway.
> > we can always allocate 300 mbs of junk :)
>
> Well, it may not be so bad.  We can certainly malloc() those 300mbs.
> They'll never be touched by anyone so it doesn't actually increase the
> resident size.

Iff the host kernel is configured to overcommit memory.

Luca

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