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Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Lai Jiangshan , VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers , Ingo Molnar , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Hou Wenlong , Pasha Tatashin , Anshuman Khandual , Brian Gerst , Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , Boris Ostrovsky , Suren Baghdasaryan , Josh Poimboeuf , Juergen Gross , Alexey Makhalov , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , "Mike Rapoport \(IBM\)" X-BeenThere: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux virtualization List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "Virtualization" On Mon, May 15 2023 at 16:19, Hou Wenlong wrote: > This patchset unifies FIXADDR_TOP as a variable for x86, allowing the > fixmap area to be movable and relocated with the kernel image in the > x86/PIE patchset [0]. This enables the kernel image to be relocated in > the top 512G of the address space. What for? What's the use case. Please provide a proper argument why this is generally useful and important. Thanks, tglx _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization