Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue Aug 22 2006 - 10:22:58 EST


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:50:57PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > this would need a "const after boot" section; which is really not hard
> > to make and probably useful for a lot more things.... todo++
>
> except for anything that needs tlb entries in user space. And it only gives you
> false sense of security. --todo

What's the alternative?

Change it from a struct to a compile time choice?
This should address both the security concerns and your tlb issues at
the price of runtime flexibility.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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