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SubjectRe: Populating multiple ptes at fault time
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Minor faults are easier; if the page already exists in memory, we should
> just create mappings to it. If neighbouring pages are also already
> present, then we can can cheaply create mappings for them too.
>
>

One problem is the accessed bit. If it's unset, the shadow code cannot
make the pte present (since it has to trap in order to set the accessed
bit); if it's set, we're lying to the vm.

This doesn't affect Xen, only kvm.

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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.



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