Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in nativeformat.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yes.  We'd use it during initialization and at other times when we 
> need trampolining, but give the swapper something which only has the 
> kernel map.

Hm, though Xen makes it all a bit more complex, as usual.  In the PAE 
case it wouldn't allow the pmd to be shared, so you'd have to allocate a 
new pmd and copy into it.  There's probably a way to deal with it within 
the existing paravirt hooks...

   J
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