Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Introduce xen specific gate page.

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25:47AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>    This looks like a good idea, a few questions:
> 
>       * Is there still a need to keep the CONFIG_XEN_IA64_VDSO_PARAVIRT
>         sub config option?  Would we actually support this not set, or
>         should we merge it into CONFIG_XEN?
>       * If I understand correctly, instead of creating a single, dynamic
>         bare metal/paravirt gate page, this is creating two static pages
>         and the appropriate one is installed once at boot.  Is the other
>         one freed?
>       * The calculated padding using the .skip looks like a bit of a
>         maintenance issue (not that these files change often), could it
>         be calculated at build time?

Thank you for comments. All of them are addressed.
I attached the updated one.


>       * Does this simplify any aspect of the paravirt_alt proposal?  I
>         don't think so, but I'd like to know your plans for that as
>         well.

No.

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yamahata

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