Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 17:21:21 EST


Alok Kataria wrote:

VMI relies on relocating the fixmap area to make room for the
hypervisor. These 2 commits started accessing the fixmap area's and
using them before VMI got a chance to check if it wants to relocate the
fixmap area. Once VMI got to the point of relocating the fixmap area's
it resulted in BUG's.


Could you describe this in more detail? I am not super-happy about this solution if there is a better one, like simply locating the fixmap area out of the way to start with.

-hpa
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