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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86-64 linux: unmap temporary mappings establish

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86-64 linux: unmap temporary mappings established for setup of 1:1 mappings
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:38:36 +0200
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>I backed out the patch in -unstable since it didn't build. In any case 
>I felt that it was doing more than just zapping the extra init mappings 
>(it changed various bits and pieces, I think to allow safe calling of 
>init_memory_mapping() after bootstrap, which I think we never currently 
>do -- it belongs in a separate patch anyway).
>
>I think I will wait until someone has a chance to look at this more 
>thoroughly and can make a patch that zaps all the init mappings in one 
>single place. I'll then look at backporting that patch to -testing.

While I saw that the essential part of the patch was applied (again), here is a 
patch to remove all early mappings
(except for the kernel image itself, of course).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

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