Why does my Xen dom0 detect only 32GB of RAM?

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Issue

  • While installing xen on hardware with more than 32GB memory the OS detects only 32GB memory.
  • dmesg output shows all memory present, but free output does not.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) does not show total available memory when booting into a xen kernel.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3+
  • Xen kernel

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