Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Aug 07 2005 - 14:04:02 EST


Hi!

> This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages
> about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using
> memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency
> and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires explicit
> updates to page table entries.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this kind of hypervisor can reasonably work with swsusp;
swsusp is just copying memory, it does not know which part of memory are page tables.
Pavel
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