Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables?  I assume from this 

Yes.

> patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other 
> things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed.  If so, Xen itself 
> must have live segments in the GDT pages, so how do you allocate space 
> for the per-CPU GDT pages on SMP?

early during boot.


> I think introducing mach-xen headers is a bit premature though - lets 
> get the interface nailed down first so that the hypervisor developers 
> have time to settle the include/asm-i386/mach-xxx files without dealing 
> unneeded churn onto the maintainers.

I don't think there's any point in putting mach-xen stuff in either.
Can we please discuss these patches in some sane way (say on the
virutalization list) so we're not cross-firing at each other.  It's just
going to be too messy otherwiswe.

thanks,
-chris