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From: PUCCETTI Armand <armand.puccetti@cea.fr>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: idle_pg_tables?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:38:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F5BEF9.1040703@cea.fr> (raw)

In the paging mechanism of XEN what is the role of the variable 
'idle_pg_table'??

For a 4-levels paging it is defined as external in asm-x86/page.h, like this

extern root_pgentry_t <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=root_pgentry_t> idle_pg_table <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=idle_pg_table>[ROOT_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=ROOT_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES>];
extern l2_pgentry_t <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=l2_pgentry_t>   idle_pg_table_l2 <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=idle_pg_table_l2>[ROOT_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES <http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/ident?a=x86_64;i=ROOT_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES>];


but where is it initialised?
and why is there only such as idle table for levels 4 and 2?
thanks

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30 16:38 PUCCETTI Armand [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-01 16:10 idle_pg_tables?? PUCCETTI Armand
2006-09-01 16:50 ` idle_pg_tables?? Petersson, Mats
2006-09-01 17:07   ` idle_pg_tables?? Ryan Harper
2006-09-05 10:50   ` idle_pg_tables?? PUCCETTI Armand
2006-09-05 14:03     ` idle_pg_tables?? Petersson, Mats

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