Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:42:13 +0000 | From | Boris Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC FIX PATCH] x86/e820: Stop kernel boot when RAM resource reservation fails |
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On July 18, 2022 8:58:15 AM UTC, Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> wrote: >Currently it is possible to start a guest with memory that >is beyond the addressable range of CPU. This can typically >be done by using QEMU without explicilty specifying the max >physical addressable bits (via phys-bits or host-phys-bits >options). In such cases QEMU will start the guest with more >than 1TB memory but would implicitly limit the phys-bits to 40.
Why does the upstream kernel care about some weird qemu guest configurations?
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