Work has been carried out in address space protection mechanisms in Linux
in our lab here at Stony Brook. Perhaps it might be of relevance to your
question. For more details please see :
http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/extension.html
regards,
- Kartik
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Pierre Cloutier wrote:
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>
> Hi:
>
> Is it thinkable to use the MMU memory protection capability in the kernel?
> Assume a debugged application still needs to run a
> "user written" task that may have bugs in it. Would it be possible to use
> the MMU to protect the rest of the kernel against a "mad" pointer?
> Has anyone done anything with the MMU?
>
> Some folks here say it is impossible to go commercial with RTLinux without
> memory protection. I know from experience there will always be bugs.
> Murphy will see to that. What do I tell my folks?
>
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