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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Pack some hvmop memory structures
	better
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:24:20 +0100
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On 02/04/2011 04:28 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> Some of the hvmop memory structures have a shocking amount of unnecesssary
> padding in them.  Elements which can have only 3 values are given 64 bits of
> memory, and then aligned (so that there is padding behind them).
>
> This patch resizes and reorganizes in the following way, (hopefully) without
> introducing any differences between the layout for 32- and 64-bit.

Am I missing something glaring, or this is breaking the ABI between 
hypervisor and kernels?

Paolo