Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/23] x86: change name of parameter for various invlpg functions

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.08.18 at 15:49, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/26/2018 08:19 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
>> They all incorrectly named a parameter virtual address while it should
>> have been linear address.
>>
>> Requested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> AMD SDM doesn't make distinction between linear and virtual addresses so
> I wonder why this was requested.

Because it is incorrect to consider them the same: A virtual address is
a segment:offset pair, while a linear address is a plain number (typically
but not always resulting from adding segment base and offset).

Jan



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