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Re: [Xen-devel] page ref/type count overflows

To: "Gianluca Guida" <gianluca.guida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] page ref/type count overflows
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:34:34 +0000
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>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 27.01.09 11:24 >>>
>On 27/01/2009 10:16, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> And shouldn't shadow's count field also be widened to BITS_PER_LONG-6?
>
>Would be nice. Hopefully either Tim or Gianluca will see to that.

Actually, I'd like to go a step further: Is there any reason why struct
shadow_page_info must be separate from struct page_info (rather than
sharing the definition, requiring some re-ordering of its elements)?

Thanks, Jan


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