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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: zach@vmware.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, chrisl@vmware.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk,
	hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz,
	pratap@vmware.com, Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:00:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050807190017.GE1024@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508060026.j760Q6FT025108@zach-dev.vmware.com>

Hi!

> This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages
> about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using
> memcpy() to duplicate them.  This is both generally good for consistency
> and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires explicit
> updates to page table entries.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this kind of hypervisor can reasonably work with swsusp;
swsusp is just copying memory, it does not know which part of memory are page tables.
				Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-07 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-06  0:26 [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries zach
2005-08-06  1:13 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-06  1:52   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-06  6:00     ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-06  8:05   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-07 19:00 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-07 19:20   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-07 19:37     ` Pavel Machek

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