From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:51:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:51:12 -0500 Received: from mpls-qmqp-03.inet.qwest.net ([63.231.195.114]:27662 "HELO mpls-qmqp-03.inet.qwest.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:51:11 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:59:16 -0800 Message-ID: <002401c2eb78$cca714e0$d5bb0243@oemcomputer> From: "Paul Albrecht" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4 vm, program load, page faulting, ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ... Why does the kernel page fault on text pages, present in the page cache, when a program starts? Couldn't the pte's for text present in the page cache be resolved when they're mapped to memory?