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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386)
FromAndi Kleen <>
Date06 Aug 2005 13:37:31 +0200
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> writes:

> i386 Transparent paravirtualization sub-arch patch #8.
> 
> Transparent paravirtualization support for MMU operations.
> 
> All operations which update live page table entries have been moved to the
> sub-architecture layer.  Unfortunately, this required yet another parallel set
> of pgtable-Nlevel-ops.h files, but this avoids the ugliness of having to use
> #ifdef's all of the code.
> 
> This is pure code motion.  Anything else would be a bug.

I think that patch is really ugly - it makes hacking VM on i386
even more painful than it already is because the convolutes the file
structure even more. Hope it is not applied.

-Andi
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