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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch] calculate dom0 metaphysical load address co

To: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch] calculate dom0 metaphysical load address correctly
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:33:29 +0900
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On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:34:22AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> ie. on SN2 we don't have anything below 0x3000000000 and we also encode
> the node ID in the address so on multi node systems the addresses go up.

Ok.


> dom0 needs the metaphysical addresses or nothing can work as we use the
> node info for talking to the PCI controllers, memory controllers (IPIs
> and TLB flushes) etc.

I don't understand why 'must match' here.
dom0 can convert psudo(meta) phsyical address into 
machine physical address, then it can get node id.

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yamahata

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