Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386) | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 06 Aug 2005 13:37:31 +0200 |
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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.
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