Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:08:28 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c |
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* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote: > Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this
Yes.
> patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other > things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself > must have live segments in the GDT pages, so how do you allocate space > for the per-CPU GDT pages on SMP?
early during boot.
> I think introducing mach-xen headers is a bit premature though - lets > get the interface nailed down first so that the hypervisor developers > have time to settle the include/asm-i386/mach-xxx files without dealing > unneeded churn onto the maintainers.
I don't think there's any point in putting mach-xen stuff in either. Can we please discuss these patches in some sane way (say on the virutalization list) so we're not cross-firing at each other. It's just going to be too messy otherwiswe.
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