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

To: "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] auto-translated-physmap resume
From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:56:42 +0200
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"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?

MfG
        Goswin

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