linux-kernel - Re: brk patches..

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Date:	Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:12:33 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: brk patches..

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>  
>>> (To be specific: I reshape the guest e820 table so that it doesn't have
>>> memory in any forbidden areas of the host e820 table.  That may require
>>> moving the pseudo-physical address of pages into a new overflow e820
>>> entry, which would also require allocating pages for the p2m radix
>>> tree.)
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Isn't that the domain builder's job?
>>   
> 
> No.  It just provides a flat memory map from 0-max_pfn.  I want to avoid
> the overlap between pseudo-phys and machine memory so that the resource
> manager doesn't get confused by overlapping ranges, and so that it
> places the pci window in the same place as native.

where will those mem allocator needed?

if it is used after finish_e820_parsing(), you could use find_e820_area()

YH
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