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Re: [Xen-devel] page fault handling in Xen

To: jeet <jeet_sat12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] page fault handling in Xen
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:21:22 +0000
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At 18:39 +0530 on 05 Mar (1173119943), jeet wrote:
> so would faulting address be virtual address of that Guest PT page or of the 
> shadow PT page which guest is trying to write?

The faulting address is always the VA which the processor is writing to
(in this case, the guest's mapping of its own PT page).

Cheers,

Tim.

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