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Re: [Xen-devel] CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_030002 broken?

To: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@xxxxxxx>, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_030002 broken?
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:14:26 +0100
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>By the way, the test of whether to poke in PAGE_USER can be done by looking
>at one of the initial mappings provided by the domain builder. If one of
>those ptes contains PAGE_USER, you know you need to use PAGE_USER for all
>kernel mappings.

How would this work? adjust_guest_l1e() (and BASE_PROT for dom0) forces
PAGE_USER on even on 3.0.3, so I still shouldn't find any L1 page table entries
not having this bit set when looking at them from kernel code.

Jan

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