Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:18:14 -0600
From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, steiner@sgi.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
       kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:12:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >> That would render the notifies useless for Xen too.  Xen needs to
> >> intercept the actual pte clear and instead of just zapping it use the
> >> hypercall to do the unmap and release the grant.
> > 
> > We are tackling that by having our own page table hanging off the
> > structure representing our seg (thing created when we do the equiv of
> > your grant call).
> 
> --verbose please.  I don't understand that "own page table" trick.  Is
> that page table actually used by the processor or is it just used to
> maintain some sort of page list?

We have a seg structure which is similar to some structure you probably
have which describes the grant.  One of the things hanging off that
seg structure is essentially a page table containing PFNs with their
respective flags (XPMEM specific and not the same as the pfn flags in
the processor page tables).

Thanks,
Robin
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