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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: how set_pte_at()'s vaddr and ptep args relate
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:19:25 -0800
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Oh, wow.  Unfortunately, the complexity isn't from how frequent or =

>> rare a kmapped PT access is, it is from it being there at all.
>
> We'll see how it works out.  What actually needs to do cross-process =

> pagetable manipulation?  Fork?  ptrace?

Fork yes, ptrace, maybe, and also the swapper for A-bit clocking.

Zach