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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about ramdisk
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:13:02 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ccugqu$tun$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1089651469.40f2c30d44364@core.ece.northwestern.edu

Followup to:  <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@core.ece.northwestern.edu>
By author:    lya755@ece.northwestern.edu
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I am learning linux kernel and have a question about ramdisk. When loading an 
> executable in ramdisk, is the kernel loading the code all at a time to memory 
> and then execute, or is it loading only a page at one time and generating a 
> page fault to fetch another page?
> 
> Thanks for any comments! Waiting desprately for your help.
> 

Neither.  The code is already in RAM.  It's mapped into the process
address space and run in place.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 16:57 question about ramdisk lya755
2004-07-12 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-07-13 14:01   ` lya755
2004-07-13 20:06     ` Lee Revell
2004-07-13 21:27       ` Lee Revell
     [not found]       ` <1089753034.40f44fca074c2@core.ece.northwestern.edu>
     [not found]         ` <1089753955.22175.8.camel@mindpipe>
2004-07-14 14:59           ` lya755
2004-07-14 16:07             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-14 16:30               ` lya755
2004-07-14 16:57                 ` Richard B. Johnson

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