Re: EuroSec'11 Presentation

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Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> With EPT or NPT you cannot detect if a page is read only.

Why not? You can always walk the page tables manually again.

> Furthermore, at least Linux (without highmem) maps all of memory with
> a read/write mapping in addition to the per-process mapping, so no
> page is read-only.

Even with 32bit highmem most memory will be eventually mapped writable by
kmap when. There's currently no concept of a ro-kmap. However I suspect
it wouldn't be too hard to add one.

-Andi

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