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Re: [Xen-devel] auto-translated-physmap resume

To: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] auto-translated-physmap resume
From: Daniel Stodden <stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:24:41 +0200
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On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:56 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> I was wondering, perhaps in my ignorance, what prevents an
> >> auto-translated-physmap linux guest from being suspended/resumed.
> >> As far as I understand, there would be no need for pagetable
> >> canonicalization code in xc_linux_save, as well as no need for those
> >> mfn_to_pfn translations in pre_suspend (and viceversa in post_suspend)
> >> Anything I am missing?
> >
> > That's about it -- there's less to do if you're using shadow pagetables.
> > Since auto-translated-physmap is typically only used by various research
> > projects its not particularly well maintained, but its usually easy to
> > fix up.
> >
> > Ian
> 
> Where can I find docs on auto-translated-physmap? Is there some
> overview what it means somewhere?

comment in

http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.4-testing.hg?file/tip/xen/include/public/features.h

might help.

regards,
daniel

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