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Re: [Xen-devel] More page-table questions.
On 12/3/07 16:26, "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are the page-tables ever updated directly by the guest, or is it all
> done via hyper-calls?
Leaf PTEs (i.e., really just PTEs, not PDEs) can be directly written from
the point-of-view of the guest. In fact they are trapped and emulated by
Xen. The guest is somewhat aware of this because it has explicitly
write-protected all its pagetables, so if it were to attempt the direct
write on native hardware in these circumstances it would receive a page
fault.
-- Keir
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