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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH]: allow hypercalls only from kernels.

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Subject:	[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH]: allow hypercalls only from kernels.
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On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 14:28 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch complete the previous one.
> Hypercalls are only allowed from kernels.
> I have added an 'unsafe_hypercall' boolean command line option to enable the 
> two debugging hypercalls.  This option is disabled by default, as it may be 
> used to write in the kernel area.

   Applied.

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Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab


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