[Xen-devel] what shadow_promote does

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] what shadow_promote does
From:	jeet <jeet_sat12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:38:10 +0530 (IST)
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Hi All,

what is mean by promote a page in shadow code? i.e when the shadow_promote() is 
call and what exactly it do?
Does promotion mean the faulting page is guest page table page create a shadow 
page table page for it and 
the remove write access mapping of that Guest Page Table page and set it type 
as PT.

So next time if guest make any entry in in this page tabe page trap it in xen.
does emulation function (emulate_memop()) only called to emulate write to this 
GPT page?

So when the page is demoted again ie  when shadow_demote() is called?


thanks in advance

jeet




                
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