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[Xen-devel] the difference between making a page RO and pinning a page

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Subject: [Xen-devel] the difference between making a page RO and pinning a page
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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:34:12 +0800
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Hi,

Is there any difference between making a page RO and pinning a page?
Are they both used To eliminate the guest from modifying the pagetable?

Could someone please shed some light on this?
I have been confused by these two operations.

Thanks

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