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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use pgd accessors when cloning a pgd range.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:44:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027174417.GA19194@a1.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC861F9.8080200@goop.org>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:31:37AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Xen shouldn't have any users of this, since it's used for low-level
> > operations like SMP bootstrap, suspend to RAM, reboot and low-level
> > BIOS functionality.
> >
> Right, but it is being called smack in the middle of setup_arch().  It
> looks like they could be hidden away in
> native_pagetable_setup_start/done though.

I think I can put the second sync-back clone_pgd_range in
native_pagetable_setup_done but the first one needs to take place right
at the beginning of setup_arch() because a lot of code in-between relies
on swapper_pg_dir containing proper entries.

Just to make sure I understand you correctly: best it would be for xen
to not have the copy_pgd_range() calls in setup_arch, correct?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27  8:50 [PATCH] x86: use pgd accessors when cloning a pgd range Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-27 16:50   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:31       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:51           ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 17:51           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 18:02             ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-27 18:11             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 18:51               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 19:00                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 19:02                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-27 17:44         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2010-10-27 17:54           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-27 17:58           ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28  9:23             ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28 11:20               ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-28 11:53                 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-28 15:49                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-28 15:48               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-03 15:35               ` Ian Campbell

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