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x86/config: Fix stale documentation concerning virtual layout

Message ID 1502458630-29167-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Andrew Cooper Aug. 11, 2017, 1:37 p.m. UTC
The hypercall argument translation area lives in the per-domain mappings in
PML4 slot 260.  Nothing currently resides in the lower canonical half above
the 4GB boundary in a 32bit PV guest.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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 xen/include/asm-x86/config.h | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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Jan Beulich Aug. 13, 2017, 3:23 p.m. UTC | #1
>>> Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> 08/11/17 3:37 PM >>>
>The hypercall argument translation area lives in the per-domain mappings in
>PML4 slot 260.  Nothing currently resides in the lower canonical half above
>the 4GB boundary in a 32bit PV guest.
>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/config.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/config.h
index bc0730f..25af085 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/config.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/config.h
@@ -169,12 +169,8 @@  extern unsigned char boot_edid_info[128];
  *    Guest-defined use.
  *  0x00000000f5800000 - 0x00000000ffffffff [168MB,             PML4:0]
  *    Read-only machine-to-phys translation table (GUEST ACCESSIBLE).
- *  0x0000000100000000 - 0x0000007fffffffff [508GB,             PML4:0]
- *    Unused.
- *  0x0000008000000000 - 0x000000ffffffffff [512GB, 2^39 bytes, PML4:1]
- *    Hypercall argument translation area.
- *  0x0000010000000000 - 0x00007fffffffffff [127TB, 2^46 bytes, PML4:2-255]
- *    Reserved for future use.
+ *  0x0000000100000000 - 0x00007fffffffffff [128TB-4GB,         PML4:0-255]
+ *    Unused / Reserved for future use.
  */