Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: change the sizes of fields in the HVM start info layout to be 64bits

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH] xen: change the sizes of fields in the HVM 
start info layout to be 64bits"):
> On 08/04/16 16:47, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > At the moment the only consumer of this structure is x86, but other arches
> > might also use it, so make all the fields 64bits. On x86 Xen will still try
> > to place everything below the 4GiB boundary, but that might not be feasible
> > in other arches.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Requested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I hope never to need to use this for x86, but leaving some wiggleroom is
> probably best.  If the very worst happens, the guest can just enable PAE
> paging to get access to the data.

Thanks.

Queued.

Ian.

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