linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "xen: fix p2m size in dom0 for disabled memory hotplug case"

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Message-ID: <aaa16b38-6de3-7faf-e4d3-31a7b726d4a2@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:09:19 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "xen: fix p2m size in dom0 for disabled memory
 hotplug case"


On 3/17/21 7:04 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Clamp the amount of extra memory to a XEN_EXTRA_MEM_RATIO
> -	 * factor the base size.
> +	 * Clamp the amount of extra memory to a EXTRA_MEM_RATIO
> +	 * factor the base size.  On non-highmem systems, the base
> +	 * size is the full initial memory allocation; on highmem it
> +	 * is limited to the max size of lowmem, so that it doesn't
> +	 * get completely filled.
>  	 *
>  	 * Make sure we have no memory above max_pages, as this area
>  	 * isn't handled by the p2m management.
> +	 *
> +	 * In principle there could be a problem in lowmem systems if
> +	 * the initial memory is also very large with respect to
> +	 * lowmem, but we won't try to deal with that here.
>  	 */


This comment looks out-of-date in light of deprecated support for 32-bit PV. So I think we don't need to revert this part (except for the macro name).


-boris