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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
To: Mike Sun <msun@gatech.edu>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Fast checkpoints with COW VM memory
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:39:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080205103950.GA4322@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4e579070802041914y6564d2d0r7b9b9b9f1a0b6086@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Sun, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 22:14:26 -0500, a écrit :
> is there a way for me to determine if the protection fault is the
> result my my COW action as opposed to a protection fault actually
> incurred by the guest (i.e. perhaps the guest OS is implementing its
> own COW on portions of its memory)?

Not that I'm aware of.

> The only method I can think of is to keep track of the
> protection bits of the pages before I have the hypervisor modify them
> to read only,

Yes.

Samuel

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05 19:59 Fast checkpoints with COW VM memory Mike Sun
2007-12-05 22:05 ` Tim Deegan
2008-01-16  3:23   ` tgh
2008-01-16  4:28     ` Mike Sun
2008-02-05  3:14       ` Mike Sun
2008-02-05 10:39         ` Samuel Thibault [this message]

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