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[Xen-devel] HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping in mm/memory.c

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Subject: [Xen-devel] HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping in mm/memory.c
From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:15:18 +0100
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hi,

I am trying to guess the purpose of the calls to
HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping in mm/memory.c, or rather why this code
(which apparently handles user space demand paging) uses a special
hypercall rather than the usual pte-update calls.

Could anyone briefly explain to me what this hypercall does, and why it
needs to be special?

thanks,
Jacob



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