Virtualization - Dec 2012 - [PATCH v3 06/11] x86/xen: Add i386 kexec/kdump implementation

> On 12/26/2012 06:18 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > Add i386 kexec/kdump implementation.
> >
> > v2 - suggestions/fixes:
> >     - allocate transition page table pages below 4 GiB
> >       (suggested by Jan Beulich).
>
> Why?
Sadly all addresses are passed via unsigned long
variable to kexec hypercall.

Daniel

On 12/27/2012 03:23 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On 12/26/2012 06:18 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> Add i386 kexec/kdump implementation.
>>>
>>> v2 - suggestions/fixes:
>>>      - allocate transition page table pages below 4 GiB
>>>        (suggested by Jan Beulich).
>>
>> Why?
>
> Sadly all addresses are passed via unsigned long
> variable to kexec hypercall.
>
So can you unf*ck your broken interface before imposing it on anyone else?

	-hpa

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