On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 09:03 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > because non bolted entries could be invalidated and reused by the time > we look at the returned hpte values. I am not sure, whether it is ok or > we need to make sure such a thing doesn't happen. For the use case i am > looking at, ie, to dump the kernel address looking at bolted entries was > enough.
It's general debugging right ?, if we stop the simulation we are fine, if we look at it "live", anything is fair game. Without non-bolted entries, you don't get vmalloc space for example, which can be annoying for debugging :-) Cheers, Ben.