Re: Introducing paravirt_ops for x86_64

On 8/8/07, Nakajima, Jun [off-list ref] wrote:

Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:

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Hi folks,

After some time away from it, and a big rebase as a consequence, here

is

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the updated version of paravirt_ops for x86_64, heading to inclusion.

Your criticism is of course, very welcome.

Have fun

Do you assume that the kernel ougtht to use 2MB pages for its mappings
(e.g. initilal text/data,  direct mapping of physical memory) under your
paravirt_ops?  As far as I look at the patches, I don't find one.

I don't think how it could be relevant here. lguest kernel does use
2MB pages, and it goes smootly. For 2MB pages, we will update the page
tables in the very same way, and in the very places we did before.
Just that the operations can now be overwritten.

So, unless I'm very wrong,  it only makes sense to talk about not
supporting large pages in the guest level. But it is not a
paravirt_ops problem.


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