Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Move private memory slot position

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Yang, Sheng wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 04 September 2008 11:30:20 Yang, Sheng wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> From ebe4ea311305d2910dcdcff2510662da0dc2c742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:11:48 +0800
>>> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Move private memory slot position
>>>
>>> PCI device assignment would map guest MMIO spaces as separate slot, so it
>>> is possible that the device has more than 2 MMIO spaces and overwrite
>>> current private memslot.
>>>
>>> The patch move private memory slot to the top of userspace visible memory
>>> slots.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Avi, these two?
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>>     
>
> Thanks, applied both.
>
> Note that kvm now exports the number of slots using KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS,
> so userspace could be made dynamic.
>   

Well, the kernel change causes the host to oops while booting Windows on
an i386 pae host.  No idea why.

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