Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25T04:42:17Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Note. I don't believe we use either trampoline (cpu startup or acpi wakeup)
> in the hypervisor case (esp Xen). So we should be able to completely ignore
> Xen and do the memcpy of pgd entries.
>

Indeed. The alias mapping can be set up in
native_pagetable_setup_done() and needn't involve Xen at all.

> I expect Xen gives us other cpus already in protected mode (which is overall
> the sane thing to do).

Quite so.

J