From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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 10:18:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC85EE6.7030608@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC85839.4000507@goop.org>
On 10/27/2010 9:50 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> This never used to be a problem. Perhaps we can change how
> clone_pgd_range is used at boot time to avoid it in the Xen case (since
> we don't care about the secondary pagetable)?
>
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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 17:18 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 [this message]
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
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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