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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-22 11:03:36 +1000
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-23 15:49:54 +1000
commit47436aa4ad054c1c7c8231618e86ebd9305308dc (patch)
treea9ba6e0521f9116442144a86e781a3164ec86094 /drivers/virtio
parentc18acd73ffc209def08003a1927473096f66c5ad (diff)
downloadlinux-47436aa4ad054c1c7c8231618e86ebd9305308dc.tar.gz
Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.
1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.

2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.

3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
   PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.

4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.

5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
   always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
   before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).

6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
   hypercall give us that, too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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