Patent ID: 8645667

Claim:
A method implemented in a hypervised computer system, the method comprising: receiving a page table request at an operating system, wherein the operating system is one of one or more operating systems executing in the hypervised computer system that is being managed by a hypervisor; identifying, by the operating system, a request type corresponding to the page table request; determining, based upon the identified request type, whether the page table request requires the hypervisor to process; handling the page table request by the hypervisor in response to the determination revealing that the page table request requires the hypervisor; in response to determining that the page table request does not require the hypervisor: reading a control indicator of a page table entry corresponding to the page table request; and executing one or more instructions by the operating system to update the page table entry in response to the control indicator identifying that the page table entry is controlled by the operating system.