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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto.cse.iitb@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shadow roles
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:03:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486F38FF.6000005@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a85e78f50807040754o11f06057td375a4600ee04149@mail.gmail.com>

Sukanto Ghosh wrote:
> Can anyone explain a situation where multiple operating modes need to
> co-exist, as facilitated by shadow roles ? (apart from differing
> quadrants)
>
>   

A page can simultaneously be used as a page directory or page table (x86 
terms).  Theoretically, it can also be used simultaneously for pae and 
nonpae paging, though that never happens in practice.


-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-05  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04 14:54 shadow roles Sukanto Ghosh
2008-07-05  9:03 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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