Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:32:47 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables |
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Rik van Riel wrote: >> >> I imagine that many of the paravirt_ops mmu hooks will need to be >> exposed as pte notifiers. This can't be done as part of the >> paravirt_ops code due to the need to pass high level data structures, >> though. > > Wait, I thought that paravirt_ops was all on the side of the > guest kernel, where these host kernel operations are invisible? >
It is, but the hooks are in much the same places. It could be argued that you'd embed pte notifiers in paravirt_ops for a host kernel, but that's not doable because pte notifiers use higher-level data strutures (like vmas).
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