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[Xen-devel] RE: recreate monitor page table?

To: "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: recreate monitor page table?
From: "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:46:51 +0800
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>At 10:13 +0800 on 18 Apr (1176891228), Li, Xin B wrote:
>> What's the intent to recreate monitor page table when shadow levels
>> changes in sh_update_paging_modes?
>
>The monitor tables have to have a different layout in different shadow
>paging modes so that linear maps of the shadows can work properly.
>

On x86_64, monitor page table should always be 4 level, and we can
uninstall the old shadow linear entry and install new shadow paging mode
entry, why even recreate the monitor top level page?
-Xin

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