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[Xen-devel] RE: x86_64 SMP support (status update)

To: "Chris Wright" <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: x86_64 SMP support (status update)
From: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:44:22 -0700
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Chris Wright wrote:
> * Chris Wright (chrisw@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> * Nakajima, Jun (jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>>> Good progress and good start, i.e. we have at least one virutal
>>> processor there :-). 
>>> 
>>> We'll look at the problem too.
>> 
>> Great, thanks.  I'm pretty suspect of the gdt, but only on a hunch.
>> Any clues why the copy is faulting might be useful.
> 
> Here's an updated patch that fixes that faulting.  It uses gdt per
> page like i386 is doing, still crashing upon schedule.  Why does each
> gdt entry need it's own page?
> 
> thanks,
> -chris

Each gdt entry? I think gdt should be per vcpu, but I don't understand
"each gdt entry". Can you please point to the code you are talking
about?

Jun
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