Hi, > On 14 Oct 2022, at 09:35, Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org> wrote: > > Hi Stefano, > > On 14/10/2022 00:55, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Henry Wang wrote: >>> With the P2M pages pool bounding the domain memory runtime allocation >>> and the documented minimal size requirement of the static heap, it is >>> safe to mark static heap feature as supported. >> Usually we wait at least one release cycle before marking a feature as >> supported. However, I can see that this case is a bit different because >> effectively static heap memory is a safety/security feature. > > Even with patch #1 merged, we are still missing some information on how to > size the heap. But see below... > >> Julien, Bertrand, I'll let you know decide on this one > > It doesn't seem to make sense to security support the static heap when > allocating statically memory for domains are still in tech preview. > > That's because if you want to have your system security supported, then you > will need all the allocations to come from the heap. At which point, > restricting the heap seems pointless. > > So I think it would be better to wait until the static memory is fully > supported. >
I think this should stay a tech preview in 4.17. Cheers Bertrand > Cheers, > > -- > Julien Grall
