Re: How does shadow page table work during migration?

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Negy
Hello again, Thank you for the helpful responses. I have several follow up questions. 1) > With Shadow, Xen has to do the combination of address spaces itself - > the shadow pagetables map guest virtual to host physical address. The shadow_blow_tables() call is "please recycle everything" whic

How does shadow page table work during migration?

2021-02-19 Thread Kevin Negy
Hello, I'm trying to understand how the shadow page table works in Xen, specifically during live migration. My understanding is that after shadow paging is enabled (sh_enable_log_dirty() in xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/common.c), a shadow page table is created, which is a complete copy of the current gu