Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933612AbYBTVr3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:47:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757421AbYBTVrU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:47:20 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:10132 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757037AbYBTVrS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:47:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:42:17 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Ian Campbell Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jody Belka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Mika Penttila Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression Message-ID: <20080220214217.GA28444@mail.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Campbell , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jody Belka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Mika Penttila References: <20080212235404.GY7980@pimb.org> <47B2DBA5.6030001@goop.org> <20080214022744.GA4160@mail.oracle.com> <47B3F2DC.8080707@goop.org> <20080215202336.GE26034@mail.oracle.com> <1203274161.27987.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080218104025.GA15899@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <1203458366.26910.15.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47BBDA20.8030105@zytor.com> <1203497511.26910.39.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1203497511.26910.39.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1067 Lines: 34 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:51:50AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:43 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > NAK! > > As far as the actual change goes I was assuming that any machine that > has DMI/SMBIOS would easily be new enough to have an E820 which could be > expected to reserve this region. Looks like I was mistaken about how > long E820 had been around and/or how reliably it is used to reserve the > tables. > > Anyway, will have to think of another solution. What changed to make this not work in the first place? New dmi code? Joel -- "The real reason GNU ls is 8-bit-clean is so that they can start using ISO-8859-1 option characters." - Christopher Davis (ckd@loiosh.kei.com) Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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/