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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Why metaphysical rid rr0 and rr4 ?

To: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Why metaphysical rid rr0 and rr4 ?
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:01:05 +0900
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:45:03AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> for metaphysical mode, we use two different alternate rids (one for rr0 and
> one for rr4).  Because they use the same mapping why don't we use the
> same rid for both rr0 and rr4 ?

This sounds a good idea.


> This should avoid duplicate entries in the VHPT.

VHPT entry includes memory attribute bits(cachable v.s. uncachable).

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