Re: Creating a per-task kernel space for kmap, user pagetables, et al

Alan Cox
2002-03-20T23:24:51Z

> That has been implemented in Caldera OpenUnix in the last years.

V7 unix had it. Thats where the "uarea" aka u. comes in. Its one of the
killer problems with Linux 8086 - on the 11 they could put the kernel stack
file handles and other process local crap into a swappable segment that
could also be swapped from the kernel address space. On the 8086 thats
trickier