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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Faulty protection key handling

To: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Faulty protection key handling
From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:41:20 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:36:20PM +0200, Dietmar Hahn wrote:
> Hi,
[..]
> By the way, are there any thoughts about adding emulation of protection keys 
> to the hypervisor? I know, whether the hypervisor nor dom0-linux are using 
> this but we need this stuff. I would try to write a proposal and add using 
> protection keys in the minios for tests. What do you think?
It shouldn't be that different from RID partitions: just partition PK space
like RID space is partitionned.  I really think the modifications are not
that big, unless we find a blocking issue.  I will try to think more...

Tristan.

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