Re: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory

2010-03-04 Thread Cam Macdonell
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Khaled Ibrahim wrote: > >> >> As a test, I removed anywhere my patch stored the size of the shared >> memory region and hard coded the size of 512 MB into qemu_ram_alloc >> and pci_register_bar, so that my patch never writes the size of the >> memory region anywhere

RE: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory

2010-03-04 Thread Khaled Ibrahim
> > As a test, I removed anywhere my patch stored the size of the shared > memory region and hard coded the size of 512 MB into qemu_ram_alloc > and pci_register_bar, so that my patch never writes the size of the > memory region anywhere. And I discovered that the value of 512MB > still shows up a

Re: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory

2010-03-03 Thread Cam Macdonell
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Khaled Ibrahim wrote: > > > > >> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:09:17 -0700 >> Subject: Re: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory >> From: c...@cs.ualberta.ca >> To: kz...@hotmail.com >> C

RE: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory

2010-03-03 Thread Khaled Ibrahim
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:09:17 -0700 > Subject: Re: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory > From: c...@cs.ualberta.ca > To: kz...@hotmail.com > CC: kvm@vger.kernel.org > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Khaled Ibrahim wrote: >&

Re: IVSHMEM and limits on shared memory

2010-03-03 Thread Cam Macdonell
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Khaled Ibrahim wrote: > > Hi Cam, > > I used your patches successfully to support shared memory on KVM and > used the test cases successfully, but qemu-kvm crashes when I increased the > size of the shared memory.  I > applied the ivshmem patch to qemu-kvm-0.12.3 (