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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] turn off writable page tables
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:10:44 -0700
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 23:36, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
>> For SMP, the enter / leave must happen under protection of the page table
>> locks for page tables which are being modified.
>>     
>
> This should be in a comment in the code
>   

Most definitely agreed!  I think it deserves an entire paragraph 
explaining how to use it properly.  But I wanted to get input from the 
Xen folks to see if this can be useful for them in some way first.

Zach