From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/17] kvm: x86: Rework identity map and TSS setup for larger BIOS sizes Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:06:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4D21F416.9090300@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Kiszka To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53112 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178Ab1ACQGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:06:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/03/2011 10:33 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > From: Jan Kiszka > > First of all, we only need this EPT identity and TSS reservation on > Intel CPUs. kvm-amd will ignore it just fine. I'd like to keep arch differences away from userspace. > Then, in order to support loading BIOSes> 256K, reorder the > code, adjusting the base if the kernel supports moving the identity map. > We can drop the check for KVM_CAP_SET_TSS_ADDR as we already depend on > much newer features. There is no ordering on kvm features. Each can come and go as it pleases. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function