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Re: [Xen-devel] Bulk pagetable unmap

To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mick.Jordan@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Bulk pagetable unmap
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:12:20 +0000
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I've only ever known this done by batching multiple hypercalls using a 
multicall - saves multiple Guest<->Xen transitions, which I assume is what you 
are aiming for?  Would that do for your purposes?

Cheers,
Mark

On Monday 09 March 2009 16:29:18 Mick Jordan wrote:
> Is it possible to use HYPERVISOR_mmu_update to unmap an area of the
> virtual address range and achieve the TLB update at the same time. I.e.,
> a bulk version of:
>
>     return HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(addr), val,
>         (unsigned long)UVMF_ALL | UVMF_INVLPG);
>
> Mick.
>
> P.S. What happened to the developer manual for 3.3? The xen.org site
> only shows a user manual.
>
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