Zachary Amsden wrote:
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> We don't fault.  We write directly to the primary page tables, and clear
> the pte just like native.  We just issue all mprotect updates in the
> queue, and flush the queue when leaving lazy mmu mode.  You can't wait
> for the TLB flush, you must flush the updates before releasing the
> pagetable lock, or you could get misordered updates in an SMP system.
>   

How do you track which ptes need shadow updates?  Do you walk the entire 
pagetable on tlb flush?  Or just rebuild the shadow from scratch on demand?

    J
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