On 8/8/07, Nakajima, Jun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, unless I'm very wrong,  it only makes sense to talk about not
> > supporting large pages in the guest level. But it is not a
> > paravirt_ops problem.
>
> Some MMU-related PV techiniques (including Xen, and direct paging mode
> for Xen/KVM) need to write-protect page tables, avoiding to use 2MB
> pages when mapping page tables. Looks like you did not, and that
> exaplains why the patches are missing the relevant (many) paravirt_ops
> in include/asm-x86_64/pgalloc.h, for example, compared with the i386
> tree.
I see.

I'll address this in the next version of the patch.


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