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DateFri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:31 +0300
FromCyrill Gorcunov <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page tables
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:36:42AM -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 at 12:59, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > The correct fix is for the Xen backend to declare kernel RPL == 0 for 64
> > bit guests -- the hyervisor already takes care of all the necessary
> > squashing to ring 3 transparently (because making the guest worry about
> > it would break the very common assumption that you can distinguish user
> > from kernel CS by RPL).
>
> Yes' it's a 64bit guest, I should have mentioned this from the beginning.
> With the 2 patches from Ian and Cyrill applied, the DomU is now booting
> fine again (currently running mainline -git).
>
> Cyrill: with your patch alone (for arch/x86/kernel/process.c), the DomU
> is still not booting, Dom0 "xm dmesg" reporting the same error. As it's
> working with both patches applied, should I try to test with only Ian's
> patch (for arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c) applied?
>
> In any case, feel free to add:
>
> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
>
> Thanks so much for your efforts to everyone involved!
>
> Christian.
> --
> BOFH excuse #436:
>
> Daemon escaped from pentagram
>

Well, I think the Ian's patch is a key here and mine should be
droppped then. Thanks for testing!

-- Cyrill


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