Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:06:45 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] adjust/fix LDT handling for Xen |
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>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 14.01.08 16:48 >>> > >* 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.
Sure, but it may take me a little while.
Jan
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