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From: Gilles Pokam <gpokam@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel memory
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:12:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba835822050429001234304bd1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050429064819.GA15501@taniwha.stupidest.org>

On 4/28/05, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:45:40PM -0700, Gilles Pokam wrote:
> 
> > the simplest way to say is: I want the pagefault handler to return a
> > memory page when it encounters a pagefault exceptions due to an
> > invalid address or incorrect page protection.
> 
> where should this page come from?

One way is to make the pagefault handler return a new vma that
contains the faulty address when such a scenario is encountered. The
normal pagefault mechanism will then apply by the time that address
gets accessed again since the address will now be valid. So a page
will be allocated. But I don't know how what should be changed  in the
kernel to enable this behavior.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-29  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28 23:52 Kernel memory Gilles Pokam
2005-04-29  3:03 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-29  5:33   ` Gilles Pokam
2005-04-29  5:43     ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-29  5:48       ` Gilles Pokam
2005-04-29  6:12         ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-29  6:45           ` Gilles Pokam
2005-04-29  6:48             ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-29  7:12               ` Gilles Pokam [this message]

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