Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Allocate physical memory in low virtual address space

2009-12-01 Thread Carsten Otte
Alexander Graf wrote: For the technical reason I hope Carsten can provide some insight. As for the implementation reason - S390 KVM (the kernel part) doesn't do memslots properly :-). I'm sorry, I cannot comment on that :-(.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Allocate physical memory in low virtual address space

2009-11-30 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:23:14PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: KVM on S390x requires the virtual address space of the guest's RAM to be within the first 256GB. While I have no problem with this patch, I am curious to know the reason of this. No need to change anything in the patch. The

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Allocate physical memory in low virtual address space

2009-11-26 Thread Alexander Graf
KVM on S390x requires the virtual address space of the guest's RAM to be within the first 256GB. The general direction I'd like to see KVM on S390 move is that this requirement is losened, but for now that's what we're stuck with. So let's just hack up qemu_ram_alloc until KVM behaves nicely