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Subject: Re: PTE entries
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Siva Prasad <sprasad@bivio.net>
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:05:00 +1000
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On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 21:34 -0700, Siva Prasad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Where exactly the PTE are setup for any given new user program?
> 
>  
> 
> In other words, if you are trying to execute a user level program,
> kernel needs to load it and setup PTEs for that program. Where does
> kernel do it?

They are faulted in.

See do_page_fault

Ben.