Re: [Xen-devel] page fault handling in Xen

[jeet <jeet_sat12@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Above code will execute and in inner unlikely condition will be true as PT
> table is read only and  error is write_access
> and control will go to not_a_shadow_fault?
> 
> so when the emulation code would be executed for the write that has been
> performed on read only guest PT for adding entry in
> guest page table by guest?
> 
> Have I missed some thing here in understanding

| Yes: guest PTs are mapped with write permissions in the guest PTs. It's only
| in the shadow PTs that the guest PTs are mapped read-only. The test on
| accumulated_gflags is looking at the access permissions in the guest PTs.
|
| -- Keir


Does this mean that on every new entry in level 4 guest page table will cause 
recursive page faults 

to create all the entries from level 4 till level 1 shadow page table?

Jeet

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