linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..

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Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:20:16 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	akataria@...are.com
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc..

Alok Kataria wrote:
> 
> VMI relies on relocating the fixmap area to make room for the
> hypervisor. These 2 commits started accessing the fixmap area's and
> using them before VMI got a chance to check if it wants to relocate the
> fixmap area. Once VMI got to the point of relocating the fixmap area's
> it resulted in BUG's.
> 

Could you describe this in more detail?  I am not super-happy about this 
solution if there is a better one, like simply locating the fixmap area 
out of the way to start with.

	-hpa
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