From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752541AbcAZV6K (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:58:10 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:54617 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494AbcAZV6I (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:58:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:58:03 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Vrabel , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roger.pau@citrix.com, mcgrof@suse.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/12] x86/smp: Make start_secondary() and initial_pg_pmd visible globally Message-ID: <20160126215802.GB8471@pd.tnic> References: <1453498558-6028-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> <1453498558-6028-2-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> <56A5FE91.60508@citrix.com> <56A63F92.80500@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56A63F92.80500@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > initial_pg_pmd (together with initial_page_table) are not really required > --- I just used them for temporary page tables in the hvmlite startup code > instead of allocating dedicated pages for that. Perhaps there is other > (Xen-specific) area that I can use for that. Once we jump to startup_32 > these tables are no longer in use. Then please create and use your own. There's no need for this short temporary dependency during boot, especially if one day we go and change things and break xen in the process. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.