Re: 64-bit PV and Meltdown

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:57:58AM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	hello.  It is my impression that NetBSD PV guests don't work when Xen
> is not in linear mapping mode.  Has that been fixed or is my understanding
> incorrect?  I thought this was why some folks were having trouble running
> NetBSD DomU hosts on public cloud servers like Linode or Amazon where
> linear mapping was disabled.

This is the recursive mappings. And yes we still need theses.
It's possible that amazon fixed this with a PV shim running in PVH or
HVM mode.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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