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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] support 1gb pages in guest page table walker

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] support 1gb pages in guest page table walker
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:19:52 +0200
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On 07/22/11 17:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 22.07.11 at 16:51, Christoph Egger<Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
Support 1gb pages in guest page table walker.

Why do you do this for GUEST_PAGING_LEVELS>= 3 rather than
GUEST_PAGING_LEVELS>= 4?

Xen can run in 32bit PAE mode but the guest in 64bit mode.
We can still change this when 32bit support is actually dropped.

Christoph


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