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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: Fix Xen domU boot with batched mprotect

Jan Beulich wrote:
Is e.g. 256Mb tiny? KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE these days is 512Mb... Indeed,
when it was 40Mb (up until a few releases ago), this indeed wouldn't
matter.

Well, the real point is that anyone doing a test on such high kernel addresses is almost certainly buggy anyway. I guess a more precise statement is that it returns well-defined results for any va the calling code could reasonably be using, not for any random bit pattern.

But I think we're getting into the weeds here.

   J

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