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RE: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1to Xe

To: "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1to Xen v2 (and v3)
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:00:00 +0100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1to Xen v2 (and v3)
> > On 64b we could use the 1:1 mapping of all physmem that Xen has. 
> > Obviously that is infeasible on 32b. In fact the interface 
> (passing a 
> > virtual address) pretty much means we have to use a linear 
> mapping in 
> > both cases.
> 
> Couldn't we temporarily map the page table page?  Not that we 
> would actually want to do that.  Just trying to confirm my understand.

Sure, but that's expensive on 32b as map_domain_mem has to do real work
(it's cheap on 64b as we have a 1-to-1 map of machine memory).

Ian

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