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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:47:40 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
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On 09/22/09 12:30, Alok Kataria wrote:
> We can certainly look at removing some paravirt-hooks which are only
> used by VMI. Not sure if there are any but will take a look when we
> actually remove VMI.
>   

There are a couple:

    * pte_update_defer
    * alloc_pmd_clone

lguest appears to still use pte_update(), but I suspect its two
callsites could be recast in the form of other existing pvops.

    J
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