On 11/9/08 11:49, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote:
> One question is, why are 0-1M frames also copied to high end
> which are then clobbered immediately? It looks like unnecessary
> if just for leaving a guard range from stray pointers...
>
> move_memory(e, 0, __pa(&_end) - xen_phys_start);
>
> /* Poison low 1MB to detect stray pointers to physical 0-1MB. */
> memset(maddr_to_bootstrap_virt(e), 0x55, 1U<<20);
Sure. I suppose it makes the move_memory() arguments a bit simpler than
they''d be if we started at 0x100000.
-- Keir
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