Homework: Reading questions

Submit two items to the submission website (see link in the navigation bar at the top of the page):

Submit your own question about the paper (e.g., what you find most confusing about the paper or the paper's general context/problem), before lecture (i.e., 1pm). You cannot use the question below. To the extent possible, during lecture we will try to answer questions submitted beforehand.
Submit your answer for the question below, before the beginning of the lecture.

Answer the following question:

The designers of the hyperkernel move functions that hard to verify in a push-button approach to user space and don't verify those functions. What is the benefit in verifying the remaining kernel code? That is, what important guarantee does the hyperkernel provide, even though much "kernel" code is in user space?

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