Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-25T23:35:55Z

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Since you have PSE disabled for Xen my hunch is that somehow that
>> got left on for your test boot.
>
> No. Under Xen cpuid masks out PSE (and complains if you try to set it
> in a pte), but when booting native it will just use a plain unadorned cpuid.

Then why you had to allocate enough pages to cause a failure has me stumped.
Perhaps there is some other bug?

Eric