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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/55] x86: use domheap page for xen page tables



On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 16:44 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> This series switches xen page tables from xenheap page to domheap
> page.
> 
> This is required so that when we implement xenheap on top of vmap
> there won't
> be a loop.
> 
> It is done in roughly three steps:
> 
> 1. Introduce a new set of APIs, implement the old APIs on top of the
> new ones.
>    New APIs still use xenheap pages.
> 2. Switch each site which manipulate page tables to use the new APIs.
> 3. Switch new APIs to use domheap page.
> 
> You can find the series at:
> 
>   https://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/people/liuw/xen.git xen-pt-
> allocation-1
> 
> Wei.
> 

Thanks for starting this work Wei. I tested and reviewed most of the
series and haven't found issues with the functionality so far. See some
remarks on the individual patches. I am not finished reviewing all of
it, though. Some more reviewing to be done in the next days.

- Stefan




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