linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8

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Message-ID: <20080306025908.GC27150@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:59:08 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:48:24AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > Um, it's bound to the *Linux page tables*, yes. And I have no idea why
> > you would use the paravirt ops for this.
> 
> paravirt ops allows interception of page table operations?

Maybe possible but it's totally the wrong API for it.

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