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SubjectRe: [PATCH] adjust/fix LDT handling for Xen

* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> Don't rely on kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) returning PAGE_SIZE aligned memory
> (Xen requires GDT *and* LDT to be page-aligned). Using the page
> allocator interface also removes the (albeit small) slab allocator
> overhead. The same change being done for 64-bits for consistency.
>
> Further, the Xen hypercall interface expects the LDT address to be
> virtual, not machine.

coul dyou try this against x86.git as well? We already unified ldt.c as
part of the paravirt patches.

Ingo


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