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* [PATCH 0 of 8] x86/xen: updated physical mapping patches, and _PAGE_GLOBAL cleanup
@ 2008-07-01 23:46 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 1 of 8] x86_64: create global mappings in head_64.S Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2008-07-01 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar
  Cc: LKML, x86, Stephen Tweedie, Eduardo Habkost, Mark McLoughlin, x86

Hi Ingo,

Here's a revised series of the Xen-64 groundwork patches relating to
creating the physical memory mapping.  The first few patches are the
necessary changes to make it work without triggering CPA warnings, and
the last couple are cleanups of _PAGE_GLOBAL in the _PAGE_KERNEL
flags, and could probably happily live in another topic branch
(they're not at all Xen-specific or required for Xen to work).

Breakdown:

1 - x86_64: create global mappings in head_64.S

  Create global mappings in head_64.S for consistency,
  to avoid spurious CPA failures.

2-5: Map physical memory in a Xen-compatible way

  These superscede "x86, 64-bit: adjust mapping of physical pagetables
  to work with Xen".

6: Fold _PAGE_GLOBAL into _PAGE_KENREL mappings

  This reverts patch 1, by solving the problem in a more general way.

7: Remove __PAGE_KERNEL* from 32-bit

  Patch 7 makes the 32-bit kernel's __PAGE_KERNEL variables redundant,
  so remove them.

8: Make CPA testing use some other pte bit

  Use an unused bit to test CPA, rather than _PAGE_GLOBAL, so that
  testing will still work when _PAGE_GLOBAL isn't usable.

Thanks,
	J


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2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 2 of 8] x86_64: unmap iomapping before populating Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 3 of 8] x86_64/setup: preserve existing PUD mappings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 4 of 8] x86_64/setup: unconditionally populate the pgd Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 5 of 8] x86_64/setup: create 4k mappings if the cpu doens't support PSE Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 6 of 8] x86: always set _PAGE_GLOBAL in _PAGE_KERNEL* flags Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 7 of 8] x86_32: remove __PAGE_KERNEL(_EXEC) Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 23:46 ` [PATCH 8 of 8] x86/cpa: use an undefined PTE bit for testing CPA Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-04 10:33 ` [PATCH 0 of 8] x86/xen: updated physical mapping patches, and _PAGE_GLOBAL cleanup Ingo Molnar
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