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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/12] various fixes related the xen relocati

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/12] various fixes related the xen relocation
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:30:35 +0900
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:57:13AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:37 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > When Xen was made relocatable, some code are broken.
> > This patch set addresses on it.
> > 
> > I went little further. Some of the assembler functions related to 
> > context switch maps stack, others doesn't. It isn't consistent.
> > So there were two choice for consistency. My choice is mapping stacks.
> > After that, it isn't necessary that stack is allocated from xenheap.
> > Allocate stack from domheap, thus memory pressure on xenheap was
> > reduced.
> 
>    That looks like a good improvement.  I'm still expecting this series
> to go in after 3.2.0.  Are there any pieces we should consider for
> inclusion earlier?  Thanks,

I think that the patch 3 is a good candidates for the 3.2.0 includsion.
[PATCH 3/12] fix vmx_switch_rr7

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yamahata

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