Paul Brook wrote: > On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> qemu_malloc[z] does not return memory suited for direct guest access, >> but that is mandatory for gdt_table. Local host variables are safe, > > No they aren't. Well, right (even when renaming local to global - what I actually meant). It is safer, but some risk remains that global variables are mapped to high addresses. Due to this and also because of some further bug of that kind I found in the meantime a better series is on the way. Jan