On 19.01.2024 14:40, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 01:23:56AM -0500, Patrick Plenefisch wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 3:46 AM Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: >>> On 17.01.2024 07:12, Patrick Plenefisch wrote: >>>> As someone who hasn't built a kernel in over a decade, should I figure >>> out >>>> how to do a kernel build with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x2000000 and report >>>> back? >>> >>> That was largely a suggestion to perhaps allow you to gain some >>> workable setup. It would be of interest to us largely for completeness. >>> >> >> Typo aside, setting the boot to 2MiB works! It works better for PV > > Are there any downsides of running kernel with > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x200000? I can confirm it fixes the issue on > another affected system, and if there aren't any practical downsides, > I'm tempted to change it the default kernel in Qubes OS.
There must have been a reason to make the default 16Mb. You may want to fish out the commit doing so ... In Qubes, though, I understand you're always running with Xen underneath, so unless this same kernel is also needed to run in HVM guests, some of whatever the reasons may have been may go away. Jan
