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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: Fix Xen domU boot with batched				 mprotect
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:36:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F8B0FF.3010005@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F8CBC4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Is e.g. 256Mb tiny? KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE these days is 512Mb... Indeed,
> when it was 40Mb (up until a few releases ago), this indeed wouldn't
> matter.
>   

Well, the real point is that anyone doing a test on such high kernel 
addresses is almost certainly buggy anyway.  I guess a more precise 
statement is that it returns well-defined results for any va the calling 
code could reasonably be using, not for any random bit pattern.

But I think we're getting into the weeds here.

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 11:03 [PATCH]: Fix Xen domU boot with batched mprotect Chris Lalancette
2008-10-15 15:24 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2008-10-15 16:23   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-16  7:28     ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-16  9:58     ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-16 16:10       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-17  7:12         ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-17 15:19           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-17 15:30             ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-17 15:36               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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