[Xen-changelog] [xen master] public/elfnote: document non-alignment of relocated init-P2M

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commit 17880a0f10421c5e456d593c70da03b1688d34ac
Author:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri May 12 17:24:17 2017 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri May 12 17:24:17 2017 +0200

    public/elfnote: document non-alignment of relocated init-P2M
    
    Since PV kernels can't use large pages anyway, when the init-P2M
    support was added it was decided to keep the implementation simple and
    not align large pages in PFN space. Document this.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
---
 xen/include/public/elfnote.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/include/public/elfnote.h b/xen/include/public/elfnote.h
index 353985f..936aa65 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/elfnote.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/elfnote.h
@@ -173,7 +173,9 @@
  * The (non-default) location the initial phys-to-machine map should be
  * placed at by the hypervisor (Dom0) or the tools (DomU).
  * The kernel must be prepared for this mapping to be established using
- * large pages, despite such otherwise not being available to guests.
+ * large pages, despite such otherwise not being available to guests. Note
+ * that these large pages may be misaligned in PFN space (they'll obviously
+ * be aligned in MFN and virtual address spaces).
  * The kernel must also be able to handle the page table pages used for
  * this mapping not being accessible through the initial mapping.
  * (Only x86-64 supports this at present.)
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