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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] supporting non-NX/XD capable processors onx86_64

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] supporting non-NX/XD capable processors onx86_64 xenlinux
From: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:13:05 -0400
Cc: Jerone Young <jerone@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I have always needed the rm_nx_xd patch to boot Xen / Dom0 on the ES7000
x86_64 but the system boots without any issues on plain vanilla Linux
2.6.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keir Fraser
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:49 AM
> To: Nakajima, Jun
> Cc: Jerone Young; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] supporting non-NX/XD capable
processors
> onx86_64 xenlinux
> 
> 
> On 18 Aug 2005, at 05:29, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> 
> > I don't have particular preference, but the latter one's change is
> > smaller, and it can fix other places (that are using the attrributes
> > derived from __PAGE_KERNEL). But the former one is cleaner to me. If
> > people agree, I can make such a patch.
> 
> How does native x86/64 Linux avoid this problem? It doesn't mask
> __PAGE_KERNEL with __supported_pte_mask, so I'm reluctant to take this
> patch. Seems to me there is some other underlying difference between
us
> and native that is not best solved by diverging even further.
> 
> Unless native doesn;t boot on these failing boxes either?
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
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