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Re: [Xen-devel] hypercall_xlat_continuation()

To: "mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx" <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] hypercall_xlat_continuation()
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:17:50 +0100
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On 22/05/2009 22:58, "Mukesh Rathor" <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok. Even if I can't make it clearer, at least I'll add few lines of comments
> explaining what's going on, after (and if) I figure it out.
> 
> Jan,
> 
> It seems assumption is made that a 64bit dom0 will not have a 32bit app making
> hypercall?
> 
> BUG_ON(*reg != (unsigned int)*reg);  <====

You know that all the 'xlat' stuff in Xen is for 32-bit guests running on
64-bit hypervisor, right? 64-bit dom0 would never execute this logic.

 -- Keir



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