x86/ept: make pagetable dumping asynchronous#7
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Previously the pagetable dumper would freeze the world and act as an atomic operation. While this new pagetable dumper is not atomic, meaning that pagetables could change while the dumper is running, it allows for interrupts and domains to continue working as a background task. Idea inspired by IRC's SAFELIST functionality which solved a similar problem: too much data to process at once. Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@ariadne.space>
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Previously the pagetable dumper would freeze the world and act as an atomic operation.
While this new pagetable dumper is not atomic, meaning that pagetables could change while the dumper is running, it allows for interrupts and domains to continue working as a background task.
Idea inspired by IRC's SAFELIST functionality which solved a similar problem: too much data to process at once.