On 26 sep. 2015, at 12:57, Matt Fleming [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, 26 Sep, at 12:49:26PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

It is still a hack unless all relative offsets are preserved.  That
is actually simpler, even: no sorting necessary.

Unless I'm missing something, preserving relative offsets is exactly
what we do today, modulo PMD_SIZE gaps.

I think what Peter means is preserving the relative offsets inside the entire 1:1 space.

This is not at all what we do currently, and i don't think it is generally feasible on 32-bit (since the physical range may conflict with the virtual kernel mappings)

However, on 64 bit (both arm and x86), this boils down to not calling setVA() in the first place, which i'm all in favor of.
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