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From: Walter Liu <Walter.liu@126.com>
To: "Josef E. Galea" <josefeg@euroweb.net.mt>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory management in Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:30:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D3847A.5090006@126.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D2C8CD.8070001@euroweb.net.mt>

Josef E. Galea wrote:

> Ok I may have got the name wrong :). What I am trying to do is to 
> implement a package on linux similiar to the TreadMarks by Alan Cox et 
> al. (ref. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/amza96treadmarks.html) that runs 
> at kernel level instead of user level. Right now I think that inorder 
> to achieve what I want to do, I have to change the code of the linux 
> virtual memory manager. This is ok for academic purposes (which is my 
> aim) however it severly reduces portability (it is much easier to just 
> load a kernel module than to patch and recompile the kernel).
>
Kernel-level thread or code can modify  mm_struct,vma,pde,pte,page 
protection bits,etc.
I think that it can modify  everything  in kernel.

Regards,
LWT


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-30  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-29 13:05 Memory management in Linux Josef E. Galea
2004-12-29 14:06 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-12-29 15:10   ` Josef E. Galea
2004-12-30  4:30     ` Walter Liu [this message]
2004-12-29 17:23 ` Florian Weimer

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