Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753954AbYANQG3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:06:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751319AbYANQGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:06:22 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:31089 "EHLO public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750921AbYANQGV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:06:21 -0500 Message-Id: <478B96A5.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.2 HP Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:06:45 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Ingo Molnar" Cc: , "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust/fix LDT handling for Xen References: <4787436E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20080114154817.GA14000@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080114154817.GA14000@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 24 >>> Ingo Molnar 14.01.08 16:48 >>> > >* Jan Beulich wrote: > >> Don't rely on kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) returning PAGE_SIZE aligned memory >> (Xen requires GDT *and* LDT to be page-aligned). Using the page >> allocator interface also removes the (albeit small) slab allocator >> overhead. The same change being done for 64-bits for consistency. >> >> Further, the Xen hypercall interface expects the LDT address to be >> virtual, not machine. > >coul dyou try this against x86.git as well? We already unified ldt.c as >part of the paravirt patches. Sure, but it may take me a little while. Jan -- 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/