Re: [Xen-devel] conditional clearing of dom0_l2 in i386's zap_low_mappings() ?

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>]

On 28/10/2010 16:49, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> On 28.10.10 at 17:30, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 28/10/2010 15:50, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> What is the reason for not unconditionally clearing the whole L2
>>> directory here? There shouldn't be anything in the first Gb that
>>> wasn't placed there just temporarily by Xen...
>> 
>> You mean the conditional within the for loop that clears dom0 l2 entries? If
>> we zapped all of dom0's l2 entries, we'd also be zapping the entries
>> legitimately just created by the dom0 builder!
> 
> Oh, I didn't look closely enough. I actually just meant all the
> entries in the first of the four L2 tables.

Oh I see. Well possibly. But you might still need the conditional for the
other three slots anyway, so it wouldn't be a simplification in that case.

 -- Keir

> Jan
> 



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