From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265086AbUGMOFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265133AbUGMOFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:05:54 -0400 Received: from core.ece.northwestern.edu ([129.105.5.1]:59333 "EHLO core.ece.northwestern.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265086AbUGMOFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:05:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1089727279.40f3eb2f82a6c@core.ece.northwestern.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:01:19 -0500 From: lya755@ece.northwestern.edu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: question about ramdisk References: <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@core.ece.northwestern.edu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 X-Originating-IP: 138.15.107.179 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thank you! Can you pls tell me where I can find related references? I've been looking into several books about kernel and part of the kernel code, but no luck so far.. Thanks for any comments! Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" : > Followup to: <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@core.ece.northwestern.edu> > By author: lya755@ece.northwestern.edu > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am learning linux kernel and have a question about ramdisk. When loading > an > > executable in ramdisk, is the kernel loading the code all at a time to > memory > > and then execute, or is it loading only a page at one time and generating a > > > page fault to fetch another page? > > > > Thanks for any comments! Waiting desprately for your help. > > > > Neither. The code is already in RAM. It's mapped into the process > address space and run in place. > > -hpa > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > _________________________________________________________ This message was sent through the NU ECE webmail gateway.