Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v12 06/10] x86: change default load address from 1 MiB to 2 MiB

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Subsequent patches introducing relocatable early boot code play with
> page tables using 2 MiB huge pages. If load address is not aligned at
> 2 MiB then code touching such page tables must have special cases for
> start and end of Xen image memory region. So, let's make life easier
> and move default load address from 1 MiB to 2 MiB. This way page table
> code will be nice and easy. Hence, there is a chance that it will be
> less error prone too... :-)))
> 
> Additionally, drop first 2 MiB mapping from Xen image mapping.
> It is no longer needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, I can't find where I offered my R-b for this patch. Its part of
the series I've said fails on my hardware.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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