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[Xen-devel] [PROPOSED REMOVAL] PV guest superpage mappings
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| Subject: | [Xen-devel] [PROPOSED REMOVAL] PV guest superpage mappings |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:24:41 +0100 |
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The PV superpage mapping feature has been in the hypervisor for a while now, but I'm not away of any use of this feature by an upstream guest kernel (e.g., and primarily of interest, pv_ops Linux). Am I mistaken, or is anyone looking into or interested in this? If the feature is unused we should remove it from the hypervisor in this development cycle, as it's untested and is nothing more than a maintenance burden and security risk. If the feature is only used by vendor patches, the hypervisor-side implementation belongs in that vendor's patch queues too. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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