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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>
To: Himanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@nulltrace.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel link address assumption
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:16:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D66A08F.7050605@paralogos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D669FCE.8000601@nulltrace.org>

On 02/24/11 10:13, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does Linux kernel for MIPS assumes that its link address is always in 
> Kseg0?
> What if I change the link address to somewhere in useg?
Your page fault handlers will be in for an interesting time. ;o)

What you describe can be, and is done, for virtualized kernels running 
on top
of a hypervisor, but there's a bit more involved than just changing the 
link address.

/K.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 18:13 Kernel link address assumption Himanshu Chauhan
2011-02-24 18:16 ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2011-02-24 18:21   ` Himanshu Chauhan
2011-02-24 21:44     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2011-03-01  8:06     ` Yang Shi

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