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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:04, Parmenides mobile.parmeni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm..., it's really a good idea. Now, I am interested some details
about how to borrow latest normal process's address space. And, what
is a ***latest*** normal process?
Borrow-- by simply taking their mm
Hi,
It's said that kernel thread is running in kernel address space only.
I wonder what's the meaning of running in kernel address space only.
When kernel thread running, which page table is used? Is there any
special characteristics of this page table?
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On 8/22/2010 3:58 PM, Parmenides wrote:
Hi,
It's said that kernel thread is running in kernel address space only.
I wonder what's the meaning of running in kernel address space only.
X86 Architecture defines 4 logical rings which acts as
a protection mechanism.
When code is running in
it just wander in kernel land only...
in this case, the fancy words are: kernel address space
But this doesn;t mean it could not communicate with user mode, if necessary...
I wonder what's the meaning of running in kernel address space only.
When kernel thread running, which page table is used
