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[Xen-devel] page table walk in xen_{create, destroy}_contiguous_region

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Subject: [Xen-devel] page table walk in xen_{create, destroy}_contiguous_region
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:53:16 +0200
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Is there a particular reason why these functions need to walk the page table 
rather than doing a much cheaper p2m
translation? vstart is assumed to be in the direct mapping area anyway 
(otherwise the uses of __pa() in the same
functions wouldn't be valid).

Thanks, Jan

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