Philippe Gerum wrote:
> In such a case, you have likely hit an illustration of the latter issue
> which the I-pipe/ppc implementation still suffers from: some page table
> entries are missed during real-time operations. As a consequence of
> this, the nucleus catches page faults on behalf of RT threads in primary
> mode, then switches these threads back to secondary in order to process
> the faults, and eventually wire the missing PTEs in. This is something
> calling mlockall() does not prevent the application from (like COW).
>
> The shared lib problem would be another issue, even if it relates to the
> same general topic (i.e. lazy/on-demand mapping of memory resources the
> kernel performs).
>
>   
Hi Philippe.

Very soon I am going to be using Xenomai on PPC with SMP...

Under what situations are 'page table entries missed'? what exactly does 
that mean?

Regards,
Jeff Koftinoff

www.jdkoftinoff.com


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