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From: Arne Mejlholm <mejlholm@cs.aau.dk>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Status of shadow page tables on 32bit x86
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:07:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440EACC8.90902@cs.aau.dk> (raw)

Dear all,

I'm trying, without much success, to figure out what the status is on 
shadow page tables. Specifically
I'm interested in using fully translated/external shadow page tables. 
Referring to [1]
it seems that, as 32bit x86 non-pae still uses shadow32.c, shadow.c is 
not quite ready for 32bit. Furthermore
I assume that shadow32.c only supports shadow page tables that are 
located in the individual VMs and are
maintained by the guest OSes. Can anyone confirm this or elaborate on 
when a working version of external
shadow page tables in shadow.c can be expected in a 32bit version?

If I try to force a build of shadow.c and corresponding files (by 
explicitely saying so in the xen/arch/x86/Makefile),
I get a load of compile errors. Is there a more better and elegant way 
to do this?

Furthermore [2] suggested the possibility of an upcomming paper on 
shadow page tables, is there any update on this?
Also I would value, if any exists, pointers (besides the migration 
article) to any documentation on the
implementation of shadow page tables.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Arne Mejlholm

[1]: 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-07/msg00699.html
[2]: 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-02/msg00830.html

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2006-03-08 10:07 Arne Mejlholm [this message]
2006-03-08 10:13 ` Status of shadow page tables on 32bit x86 Keir Fraser

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