Re: [RFC PATCH 09/35] Change __FIXADDR_TOP to leave room for the hypervisor.

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 12:29:22 EST


* Anthony Liguori (aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I think this is more generally useful if it's actually a CONFIG option
> (as it was in the VMI patches) instead of subarch specific. Qemu has
> had a "fast" patch for a while that pretty much just increases the size
> of the memory hole and changes ___PAGE_OFFSET to be lower in memory.
> There are a number of interesting things one can do once there's an
> adequately sized hole too (assuming you're doing full-virtualization).

Good point, easy to change. Although I think dynamic may be the better
approach.

thanks,
-chris
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