linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X

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Message-ID: <ed498aea-127a-246c-79e8-67ade61ba0ce@suse.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 06:50:22 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX
 possible entries

On 05/12/16 18:49, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> This is the third pass at my patchset to fix up our problems with
> XENMEM_machine_memory_map on large systems.  The only changes on this
> pass were to flesh out the comment above the E820_X_MAX definition, and
> to add Juergen's Reviewed-by to the second patch.
> 
> Let me know if anyone has any questions/comments!
> 
> Alex Thorlton (2):
>   x86: Make E820_X_MAX unconditionally larger than E820MAX
>   xen/x86: Increase xen_e820_map to E820_X_MAX possible entries
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h | 12 ++++++++----
>  arch/x86/xen/setup.c        |  6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

Ingo, do you have any preferences through which tree those patches
should go? I'd like to have at least patch 2 in 4.10, so I could take
it through the Xen tree.


Juergen