Re: [Xen-devel] Memory Sharing

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

At 13:03 +0530 on 26 Jul (1311685428), Lakshitha Harshan wrote:
> I'm doing a research project related to memory sharing. In my project I'm
> trying to share the memory pages in kernel code segments. These kernels are
> identical.
> I have carried out some experiments to analyze these memory pages. Results
> concluded that no modifications occurs on these memory pages at runtime.
> 
> But after sharing these pages using nominate and share functions, 5 memory
> pages calls unshare() operation just after sharing the code pages.
> 
> So my question is, if no modifications occurs at runtime, how could be
> possible to call "unshare()"?

Have you tried tracing the callers of the function to find out what they
are?  The WARN() macro is handy for that - it prints a complete
backtrace of the hypervisor call chain. 

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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