Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:31:37 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: use pgd accessors when cloning a pgd range. |
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On 10/27/2010 10:18 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/27/2010 9:50 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> >> This never used to be a problem. Perhaps we can change how >> clone_pgd_range is used at boot time to avoid it in the Xen case (since >> we don't care about the secondary pagetable)? >> > > Xen shouldn't have any users of this, since it's used for low-level > operations like SMP bootstrap, suspend to RAM, reboot and low-level > BIOS functionality. >
Right, but it is being called smack in the middle of setup_arch(). It looks like they could be hidden away in native_pagetable_setup_start/done though.
J
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