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Re: [Xen-devel] understanding __linear_l2_table and friends

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] understanding __linear_l2_table and friends
From: Scott Parish <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:46:17 +0000
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> Xen uses the common trick whereby each page directory maps
> itself. This means that every page-table entry is mapped into the
> address space at some virtual address.

So this is the same as netbsd's recursive page table stuff.

Thanks for the explanation
sRp

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Scott Parish

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