Re: [Xen-devel] kernel Bug after upgrading to 3.0.2-2

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 May 2006, at 16:21, Jan Beulich wrote:

> As I understand it, this is only needed to be this large because 
> xenlinux allocates an entire page for the pgd where 32
> bytes would be sufficient (as is done in native Linux). Wouldn't it 
> thus make more sense to work towards a solution
> where, like on native, the other possible pgdirs on the same page can 
> actually get used. As allocation already goes
> through a constructor this wouldn't seem this hard. On the other hand, 
> if it's not hard, you would probably have done it
> already, so I guess I'm missing something here...
At the moment PAE page directories always need to be page-aligned. 
That's probably not a difficult restriction to lift though.
 -- Keir


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