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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 19/24] i386 Vmi mmu changes

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 19/24] i386 Vmi mmu changes
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:20:04 +0100
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On Monday 13 March 2006 19:13, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> MMU code movement.  Unfortunately, this one is a little bit more
> complicated than the rest.  We have to override the default accessors
> that directly write to page table entries.  Because of the 2/3-level
> PAE split in Linux, this turned out to be really ugly at first, but
> by allowing the sub-arch layer to override the definitions and keeping
> the native definitions in place, the code becomes much cleaner.

This patch definitely needs to be split up more.

-Andi

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