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[Xen-devel] What's the advantage of Writable pagetable?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] What's the advantage of Writable pagetable?
From: Chengyuan Li <chengyuanli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:30:24 +0800
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Hi,

Before writable pagetable is enabled, XenLinux use Hypercall to update
PTE. After the writable pagetable is enabled, it depends on page fault
to update PTE. What's the advantage then?


Thanks,
Chengyuan


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