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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 2013 07:38:43 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: nested page table integration with amd64/pmap
Message-ID:  <521B6873.4070007@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <kvfemd$9i6$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <CAFgRE9H2n63%2B3GFwWNwE-Zu3gHPBcWhD4g6frB_ksXz=HAXp5w@mail.gmail.com> <kv7dig$id5$1@ger.gmane.org> <5217DAB2.3020204@freebsd.org> <kvfemd$9i6$1@ger.gmane.org>

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>>   For time-sensitive situations, there's not a lot of options other than
>> forcing guest memory to be wired, since there isn't visibility into the
>> host without having o/s-specific "tools" that could communicate this
>> information to the hypervisor.
>
> Ok, that is how I understood it also, but I thought that maybe there was
> some way of telling which guest memory belongs to the kernel and only
> wire those pages.

  Not in a general way. That's where you need a hypervisor-specific 
module in the guest to pass on this info e.g. vmware-tools.

later,

Peter.




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