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Re: [Xen-devel] doubt on domU segment mappings

To: Sandesh <sandesh.ahiremath@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] doubt on domU segment mappings
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:42:44 +0100
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Sandesh, le Mon 21 Jul 2008 22:20:28 +0530, a écrit :
>   Can someone please tell me if the segment mappings like kernel_seg,
> ramdisk_seg, pgtables_seg, start_info_seg, etc.. are static or are they
> subjected to change, in the sense the are the page table entries in dom0
> mapping these segments change or do they remain static?? 

These are constructed by the PV domain builder just for the domU.  DomU
is then free to do whatever it wants with it, dom0 doesn't care at all.
In the PV-GRUB case for instance, it is completely rebuilt from within
the domU.

Samuel

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