Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:56:19 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386) |
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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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.
Especially as there's been no user shown for it, similar to all the other ugly patches from vmware.
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