Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Apr 25 2007 - 19:36:14 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Since you have PSE disabled for Xen my hunch is that somehow that
>> got left on for your test boot.
>
> No. Under Xen cpuid masks out PSE (and complains if you try to set it
> in a pte), but when booting native it will just use a plain unadorned cpuid.

Then why you had to allocate enough pages to cause a failure has me stumped.
Perhaps there is some other bug?

Eric
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