On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 15:03 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 12/11/15 14:48, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:43:28PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > Guest memory allocation in the domain builder of libxc is done via
> > > virtual addresses only. In order to be able to support preallocated
> > > areas not virtually mapped reorganize the memory allocator to keep
> > > track of allocated pages globally and in allocated segments.
> > > 
> > > This requires an interface change of the allocate callback of the
> > > domain builder which currently is using the last mapped virtual
> > > address as a parameter. This is no problem as the only user of this
> > > callback is stubdom/grub/kexec.c using this virtual address to
> > > calculate the last used pfn.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
> > 
> > If you've tested and confirmed pvgrub (stubdom based grub) doesn't
> > break:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> > 
> 
> Hmm, difficult. Is this ever tested automatically?

Yes, see the test-amd64-amd64-amd64-pvgrub and test-amd64-amd64-i386-pvgrub 
jobs in any recent osstest flight (it was added a couple of months back.

http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/results/history/test-amd64-amd64-amd64-pvgrub/xen-unstable.html

suggests it works ok in general.

Ian.


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