Re: [Xen-devel] vmx & efer

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/5/07 11:08, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> That I'm not sure about. We always ensure the shadow PAE CR3 is in low 4GB,
>> so we don't have to worry about this. I guess it depends whether PAE CR3 is
> 
> Because it happens to sit in the vcpu structure? That's one more thing to
> remember when folding the Xen heap into the domain heap on x86-64 then.
> (I have to admit that I dislike all these hidden address range dependencies.)

I'm very inclined to turn 'Xen heap' allocations into 'allocate below 4GB'
allocations by default. Then remove that restriction at allocation sites
one-by-one. We do so little Xen-heap allocation (after all we live with
~12MB heap right now) that this will be absolutely fine.

 -- Keir



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