[Xen-devel] Re: recreate monitor page table?

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

At 23:46 +0800 on 18 Apr (1176940011), Li, Xin B wrote:
> On x86_64, monitor page table should always be 4 level, and we can
> uninstall the old shadow linear entry and install new shadow paging mode
> entry, why even recreate the monitor top level page?

We could have made a routine to adjust the layout of the monitor table
given the old and new modes, but it would have to understand two modes
at once, which nothing else in multi.c does.  It would also reproduce 
code that's already in sh_make_monitor_table and sh_destroy_monitor_table.
Since we don't expect it to be worth optimizing this path, we just used
the existing routines.

Cheers,

Tim.  

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