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Re: [Xen-devel] Setting page type for GDT page

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Setting page type for GDT page
From: Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:39:16 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> The type code disagrees with you. There's still a writable mapping lurking
> somewhere. Perhaps not in the page tables you are running on, though. What
> do you do with the page tables that the domain builder provides you?

Nothing, so that's a very good possibility.  The domU has already
switched to its new basetable pointer, but the old L1 page tables
must be out there, somewhere, and are stil validated.

Thanks!
-- Trammell

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