* Question about kernel VM
@ 2001-11-09 6:23 Louis Garcia
2001-11-09 6:30 ` Robert Love
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From: Louis Garcia @ 2001-11-09 6:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Do all ports of the kernel, like ix86, ia64, sparc, alpha, and ppc,
share one VM subsystem or do each port have their own???
Louis
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* Re: Question about kernel VM
2001-11-09 6:23 Question about kernel VM Louis Garcia
@ 2001-11-09 6:30 ` Robert Love
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From: Robert Love @ 2001-11-09 6:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Louis Garcia; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 01:23, Louis Garcia wrote:
> Do all ports of the kernel, like ix86, ia64, sparc, alpha, and ppc,
> share one VM subsystem or do each port have their own???
They share the same VM, located in mm/
There is arch-dependent VM code, in arch/<arch>/mm, but that is mostly
support for specific memory functions like initializing the address
space.
Robert Love
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