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[Xen-devel] Re: Xenheap disappearance: (was: xen_phys_start for 32b)

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Xenheap disappearance: (was: xen_phys_start for 32b)
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:04:17 +0000
Cc: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 08/01/2009 00:17, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Xenheap will disappear entirely on x86/64 in future. So long
>> term is that
>> i386 and x86/64 are actually to diverge significantly in this area.
> 
> What's the ETA on this?  I've got a big patch in preparation built
> on 3.3. that does gymnastics to get around xenheap limitations
> and have been holding off updating it to unstable, hoping for
> this xenheap change (to avoid re-re-duplicating the wheel).

How difficult has it been to work around? Is it just pointing xmalloc() at
the domheap instead of xenheap?

 -- Keir



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