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@ 2008-07-04 14:54 Sukanto Ghosh
  2008-07-05  9:03 ` Avi Kivity
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From: Sukanto Ghosh @ 2008-07-04 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm

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

-- 
Regards,
Sukanto Ghosh

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* Re: shadow roles
  2008-07-04 14:54 shadow roles Sukanto Ghosh
@ 2008-07-05  9:03 ` Avi Kivity
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Avi Kivity @ 2008-07-05  9:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sukanto Ghosh; +Cc: kvm

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.


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