From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 9/9] x86/misc: Post cleanup
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 14:17:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5374BE5E.40802@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5374D9D00200007800012AC3@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 15/05/14 14:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 15.05.14 at 11:48, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> * panic() now works on early boot. Replace EARLY_FAIL()
> Very good.
>
>> * idt_table is 4096 bytes. Page align it.
> Size and alignment have nothing to do with one another here; I see no
> reason for aligning the table on more than a 16-byte boundary.
>
> Jan
>
I was considering getting it in a single TLB entry, but on second
thoughts this is currently in the bss, so will be covered by the Xen
mappings. I will drop it.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-15 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-15 9:48 [PATCH RFC 0/9] x86: Improvements to trap handling Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 1/9] x86/traps: Names for system descriptor types Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 9:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:08 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 10:26 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 12:10 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 2/9] x86/traps: Make panic and reboot paths safe during early boot Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:19 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 10:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 12:12 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 15:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 15:59 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 3/9] x86/traps: Make the main trap handlers safe for use early during Xen boot Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:20 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 4/9] x86/misc: Early cleanup Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:32 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 10:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 5/9] x86/traps: Functional prep work Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:36 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 10:45 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 12:15 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 12:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 6/9] x86/boot: Install trap handlers much earlier on boot Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 10:53 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 11:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 12:21 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 7/9] x86/boot: Drop pre-C IDT patching Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 8/9] x86/irqs: Move interrupt-stub generation out of C Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 13:06 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 9:48 ` [PATCH RFC 9/9] x86/misc: Post cleanup Andrew Cooper
2014-05-15 13:14 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-15 13:17 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-05-16 8:49 ` [PATCH RFC 0/9] x86: Improvements to trap handling Wu, Feng
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