From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:20:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489B6710.9000604@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218136365.23770.52.camel@alok-dev1>
Alok Kataria wrote:
>
> VMI relies on relocating the fixmap area to make room for the
> hypervisor. These 2 commits started accessing the fixmap area's and
> using them before VMI got a chance to check if it wants to relocate the
> fixmap area. Once VMI got to the point of relocating the fixmap area's
> it resulted in BUG's.
>
Could you describe this in more detail? I am not super-happy about this
solution if there is a better one, like simply locating the fixmap area
out of the way to start with.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 19:12 [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc Alok Kataria
2008-08-07 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-07 21:27 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 21:42 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 21:55 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-07 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-07 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:26 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 19:15 ` Alok Kataria
2008-08-08 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-07 23:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-07 23:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 0:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-08 0:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 0:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 0:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 6:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 1:14 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-08 1:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-08 1:28 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-08-07 21:41 ` Alok Kataria
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