linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] i386 boot: replace boot_ioremap with enhanced bt_ioremap

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Message-ID: <20080118125007.GM11044@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:50:07 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
Cc:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] i386 boot: replace boot_ioremap with enhanced
	bt_ioremap - enhance bt_ioremap


* Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk> wrote:

> Shouldn't these, and the rest of the file, be using the PTE accessor 
> macros set_pte,clear_pte etc? The boot_ioremap it replaces seems to 
> have done. Otherwise these patches don't appear to be paravirt_ops 
> clean. I haven't had a chance to investigate fully so this might be a 
> Xen bug or unrelated to this patch but running current x86.git#mm as a 
> Xen guest ends up with it being shot in the head by the hypervisor 
> with:

willing to apply patches.

	Ingo
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