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From: Christopher Benninger <chrisbenninger@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Wei Liu <liuw@liuw.name>
Subject: Re: MULTI_mmu_update, HYPERVISOR_mmu_update and pte entry
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:37:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikc6uumHUicraZp4TH51=Jz7_Ry2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305706199.4198.0.camel@abulafia.goop.org>


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Interesting,

Are you talking about when DomU calls setpte?

Chris Benninger

University of Victoria, Computer Science
cbenning@cs.uvic.ca
http://benninger.ca



On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:47 +0800, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Benninger
> > <chrisbenninger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Jeremy,
> > > I am definitely doing something weird, but on purpose. I am trying to
> > > determine which process specifically owns the pte in question. I have a
> domU
> > > module which I can ask for information, I just dont know how to get the
> ptr
> > > provided, into a useful context I can send it.
> >
> > Most pte updates belong to current process. Maybe you can use CR3 to
> > determine to which page table a specified pte belongs. But it may be
> > hard to determine the actual task_struct IMHO.
>
> If you can record it at the time of the setpte, its easy: "current" is
> always the current task.
>
>        J
>
>
>

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 22:41 MULTI_mmu_update, HYPERVISOR_mmu_update and pte entry chrisbenninger
2011-05-17 22:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-05-18  5:25   ` Christopher Benninger
2011-05-18  5:47     ` Wei Liu
2011-05-18  8:09       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-05-19 17:37         ` Christopher Benninger [this message]
2011-05-19 17:49           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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