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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] x86: provide an init_mem_mapping hypervisor hook

To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, x86@xxxxxxxxxx
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:09:25 -0400
Cc: tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, hpa@xxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:08:12 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

On 07/25/2017 05:50 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Provide a hook in hypervisor_x86 called after setting up initial
> memory mapping.
>
> This is needed e.g. by Xen HVM guests to map the hypervisor shared
> info page.

This is not necessarily a problem specific to guests so I wonder whether
the hook should be part of x86_platform_ops or some other x86 structure.

-boris

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