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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] p2m: Allow non-leaf entries to be replaced by le
At 15:37 +0000 on 21 Jan (1295624275), George Dunlap wrote:
> p2m: Allow non-leaf entries to be replaced by leaf entries
>
> Allow l2 and l3 p2m tables to be replaced with 2MB and 1GB pages
> respectively, freeing the p2m table page properly. This allows, for example,
> a sequence of 512 singleton zero pages to be replaced with a superpage
> populate-on-demand entry.
>
> Changes:
> * Add a p2m_free_ptp() corresponding to p2m_alloc_ptp(), which will
> handle everything related to the freeing properly.
> * Add p2m_free_entry(), based on ept_free_entry(), which will free
> intermediate tables recursively.
> * For both ept and p2m, when replacing non-leaf entries with leaf
> entries, keep old entry and call *_free_entry() after new entry
> has been written and proper flushes have been done.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks. (I made a few small changes to help the debug=y build.)
Tim.
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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd. (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
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