Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:48:17 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] adjust/fix LDT handling for Xen |
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* 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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