RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][HVM] Removing 1:1 mapping from qemu-dm

["Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2006, at 18:33, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> 
>>> I'd prefer the hack in mm.c I think. It's certainly much smaller,
>>> and it'd be okay with a comment. Is there any way for
>>> get/put_page_type to know if they've been called on a shadow page
>>> (as opposed to a guest page) and to avoid changing the type count
>>> based on that, rather than whether the page is local or foreign?
>>> That'd be a neater and less hacky thing to use for the decision imo.
>>> 
>> 
>> Basically we need to tell the parent L1 (or top) page that has a
>> reference to it, for example. If it's a shadow page, the guest page
>> is being used in the shadow tree. It would be doable for
>> get_page_type, but almost impossible for put_page_type given it gets
>> only one argument (page_info) today.
> 
> Sorry, I actually meant get/put_page_from_l1e(). Does that make the
> problem easier? I'd be prepared to add an extra parameter to those
> functions if really necessary.
> 

That would be sensible ;-) I think we need to add an extra parameter to
those to specify the context (guest or shadow, for example) rather than
who's calling.

Jun
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