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Re: [Xen-devel] PAE xen + linux kernel boots ...

To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PAE xen + linux kernel boots ...
From: Scott Parish <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:57:01 +0000
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On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 01:01:54AM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > The hypervisor was taking a pagefault in ptwr_emulated_update() when
> > pl1e (a map_domain_mem() mapped page) was dereferenced to be
> > copied. pl1e is a 64 bit type with pae, but only the first 4 bytes
> > were getting mapped, and there was a case where pl1e would straddle
> > a page boundary,
> 
> Huh?  page table entries must be 8-byte aligned, so they never ever
> can cross a page border.  Must be something else.

Right, the bug is in the partial write support in ptwr_emulated_update().
Working on a patch now.

sRp

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Scott Parish

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