Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759260AbXKNWRc (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:17:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753538AbXKNWRY (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:17:24 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:37358 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753465AbXKNWRX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:17:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K) - Fix From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Grant Grundler Cc: David Miller , gregkh@suse.de, barak@neocleus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, guy@neocleus.com In-Reply-To: <20071114215538.GA14588@colo.lackof.org> References: <20071028193104.GA13956@suse.de> <9392A06CB0FDC847B3A530B3DC174E7B03C96F36@mse10be1.mse10.exchange.ms> <20071028200336.GA14563@suse.de> <20071028.180807.165828961.davem@davemloft.net> <1194988653.28605.4.camel@pasglop> <20071114062157.GA30203@colo.lackof.org> <1195028178.28865.32.camel@pasglop> <20071114215538.GA14588@colo.lackof.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:16:43 +1100 Message-Id: <1195078603.28865.51.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:55 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > Ah ok.. I was assuming there was only a "Hypervisor" and all the "guests" > were equal. If one OS instance is "Host" and can see the device before hand, > then yeah, it makes sense to "hide" the device from the normal device drivers. The "Host" is the hypervisor in something like KVM or lguest which is all I really care about :-) On Xen, it would be dom0 I suppose. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/