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Re: [Xen-devel] page table walk in xen_{create, destroy}_contiguous_regi

To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] page table walk in xen_{create, destroy}_contiguous_region
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:05:43 +0100
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On 26 Jun 2006, at 14:53, Jan Beulich wrote:

Is there a particular reason why these functions need to walk the page table rather than doing a much cheaper p2m translation? vstart is assumed to be in the direct mapping area anyway (otherwise the uses of __pa() in the same
functions wouldn't be valid).

Thanks, Jan

Looks like the walks are not really needed.

 -- Keir


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