From: George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>
To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>,
Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/17] libxc/xc_dom_arm: Copy ACPI tables to guest space
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:38:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFLBxZbXQijEXXMSnWC9JFL++pN7fVX_Qa8phFBGkQTV8rZkeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1607211411330.6667@sstabellini-ThinkPad-X260>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Stefano Stabellini
<sstabellini@kernel.org> wrote:
>> You are assuming that the guest will map the ACPI blob with the same
>> attributes as the rest of the superpage.
>>
>> IHMO, a sane operating system will want to map the ACPI blob read-only.
>
> That's true. But there are other things which might be mapped
> differently and could shatter a stage-1 superpage mapping (especially on
> x86 that has a much more complex memory map than ARM). Obviously adding
> one more is not doing it any good, but it might not make a difference in
> practice.
>
> Anyway, I agree with Julien that his suggestion is the best for ARM. If
> the libxl maintainers are willing to accept two different code paths for
> this on ARM and x86, then I am fine with it too.
Sorry to be a bit late to this thread -- there's a interface principle
that I think we should at some point have a larger discussion about:
whether "maxmem" means the amount of RAM which the guest sees as RAM,
or whether "maxmem" means the amount of RAM that the administrator
sees as used by the guest. At the moment tnhere's no consistent
answer actually; but I am strongly of the opinion that for usability
the best answer is for "memory" to be the *total* amount of *host*
memory used by the guest. In an ideal world, the admin should be able
to do "xl info", see that there is 3000MiB free, and then start a
guest with 3000MiB and expect it to succeed. At the moment he has to
guess.
-George
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Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-23 3:16 [PATCH v2 00/17] Xen ARM DomU ACPI support Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] libxl/arm: Factor out codes for generating DTB Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] libxc: Add placeholders for ACPI tables blob and size Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] libxl/arm: Add a configuration option for ARM DomU ACPI Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 13:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 14:34 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:40 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-07 15:30 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 3:40 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 9:22 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 11:33 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:17 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 14:33 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:45 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 7:54 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 9:20 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-13 9:48 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 10:03 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-15 8:00 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-15 8:07 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-18 19:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-19 10:40 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-19 10:44 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-23 15:53 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] libxl/arm: prepare for constructing ACPI tables Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 13:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 14:23 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 14:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:18 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI RSDP table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI XSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI GTDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 15:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:19 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 16:26 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 16:58 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 1:44 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-29 9:29 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-29 9:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-29 13:41 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-05 16:42 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-06 9:50 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-06 10:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] libxl/arm: Factor MPIDR computing codes out as a helper Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 16:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI MADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 16:36 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI FADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI DSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 14:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 1:50 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 17:03 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 6:01 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 12:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-28 11:03 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-28 13:41 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-29 18:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-01 7:58 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-01 10:18 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-01 14:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-01 15:14 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] libxl/arm: Add a helper to calculate the ACPI table checksum Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 17:05 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] libxl/arm: Link all ACPI tables into one buffer Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 17:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] libxl/arm: Factor finalise_one_memory_node as a gerneric function Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] libxl/arm: Add ACPI module Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:35 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-25 3:22 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 9:48 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] libxc/xc_dom_arm: Copy ACPI tables to guest space Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 6:25 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:49 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 12:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-05 17:13 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-06 9:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-06 10:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-12 3:47 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 9:25 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 11:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:42 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 14:50 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:57 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 15:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-12 15:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 15:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-12 16:05 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 16:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 16:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-13 15:22 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-13 17:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-14 11:15 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-15 9:39 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-19 10:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-20 6:52 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-20 9:32 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-25 7:56 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-28 11:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-14 11:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-14 13:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-20 12:33 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-20 13:33 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-20 13:41 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-20 14:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-20 17:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-20 19:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-21 17:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-21 18:23 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-21 18:54 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-21 19:14 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-21 21:15 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 8:38 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2016-07-25 9:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 22:06 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 22:46 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-25 23:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-26 1:17 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-28 11:06 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-28 12:42 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-08-02 11:01 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-03 19:20 ` Julien Grall
2016-08-04 10:17 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-02 11:01 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-07 15:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] libxl/arm: Initialize domain param HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:48 ` Julien Grall
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