From: Walter Liu <Walter.liu@126.com>
To: "Josef E. Galea" <josefeg@euroweb.net.mt>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory management in Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:30:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D3847A.5090006@126.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D2C8CD.8070001@euroweb.net.mt>
Josef E. Galea wrote:
> Ok I may have got the name wrong :). What I am trying to do is to
> implement a package on linux similiar to the TreadMarks by Alan Cox et
> al. (ref. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/amza96treadmarks.html) that runs
> at kernel level instead of user level. Right now I think that inorder
> to achieve what I want to do, I have to change the code of the linux
> virtual memory manager. This is ok for academic purposes (which is my
> aim) however it severly reduces portability (it is much easier to just
> load a kernel module than to patch and recompile the kernel).
>
Kernel-level thread or code can modify mm_struct,vma,pde,pte,page
protection bits,etc.
I think that it can modify everything in kernel.
Regards,
LWT
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-30 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-29 13:05 Memory management in Linux Josef E. Galea
2004-12-29 14:06 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-12-29 15:10 ` Josef E. Galea
2004-12-30 4:30 ` Walter Liu [this message]
2004-12-29 17:23 ` Florian Weimer
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