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Typically. Although on a virtualized Arm what the guest views as a physical address is really an intermediate physical address that must be translated by the second stage MMU. So it’s possible that reading the first stage page tables can cause a page fault in the second stage MMU. I suspect modern x86 works similarly, but I’m less familiar with that.


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