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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] KVM: hypercall batching
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:47:34 +0200
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Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Avi Kivity:
>   
>>> AFAICS there is no guarantee about page-alignment here...
>>>       
>
>   
>> Kernel data is physically contiguous (true for per-cpu data as well?), 
>> so no there's issue here.
>>     
>
> Modules are loaded into vmalloc space, no? I think, if kvm is built as 
> module, static module variables are not guaranteed to be contiguous.
>   

It's  not a module (the code is part of pv-ops for kvm, not the kvm host 
itself).

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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