Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:35:54 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 |
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Robin Holt wrote: > We have a seg structure which is similar to some structure you probably > have which describes the grant. One of the things hanging off that > seg structure is essentially a page table containing PFNs with their > respective flags (XPMEM specific and not the same as the pfn flags in > the processor page tables).
i.e. page tables used by hardware != cpu, right?
In the Xen guest case the normal processor page tables are modified, but in a special way to make the Xen hypervisor also release the grant.
cheers, Gerd
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