On 22/02/16 22:06, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > Baremetal kernels clear .bss early in the boot. Since Xen PV guests don't > excecute that early code they should do it too. > > (Since we introduce macros for specifying 32- and 64-bit registers we > can get rid of ifdefs in startup_xen())
.bss must have been cleared for PV guests otherwise they would be horribly broken. What was the method and why is it no longer sufficient? David
