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RE: [Xen-devel] scrubbing free'd pages

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Rafal Wojtczuk" <rafal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] scrubbing free'd pages
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 23:33:10 +1000
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> Other memory pages the domain freeing the
> pages must scrub them itself before freeing them back to Xen.

Is that true for a HVM domain making a decrease_reservation hypercall?
If so I should modify my code accordingly... it also means I need to
know if the page I'm decreasing is an unpopulated PoD page or not too.

James

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