From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752583AbVHGTDe (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752578AbVHGTDV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:03:21 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:23246 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752576AbVHGTDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:03:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:00:17 +0200 From: Pavel Machek 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 Message-ID: <20050807190017.GE1024@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <200508060026.j760Q6FT025108@zach-dev.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508060026.j760Q6FT025108@zach-dev.vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms