linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K)

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Message-Id: <1195078603.28865.51.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:16:43 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, gregkh@...e.de,
	barak@...cleus.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, guy@...cleus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K) - Fix


On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:55 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Ah ok.. I was assuming there was only a "Hypervisor" and all the "guests"
> were equal. If one OS instance is "Host" and can see the device before hand,
> then yeah, it makes sense to "hide" the device from the normal device drivers.

The "Host" is the hypervisor in something like KVM or lguest which is
all I really care about :-) On Xen, it would be dom0 I suppose.

Ben.


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