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[Xen-devel] IDT location safe if > 4GB?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] IDT location safe if > 4GB?
From: "Roger Cruz" <roger.cruz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:00:01 -0500
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Are there any known or potential problems with Xen’s xmallocing the secondary cores’ IDT tables from a memory region whose physical address is higher than 4GB?

 

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Roger R. Cruz

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