Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: Virtual Machines, JVM in kernel, hot-swapped kernel | | Date | 24 Aug 1998 11:05:50 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980822152913.18494@lucifer.guardian.no> By author: Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > You don't want a VM in the kernel, but you might want a system level > VM - a single VM used by all java-programs what will do caching and > optimalization etc. Other than that, it is interesting to see if > there are any new services needed by a VM that the kernel should > provide. I know of one such service: user-level exceptions. Being > able to handle a memory protection exception without the > user->kernel->user context switches makes certain GC/VM-tricks much > less expensive. >
Hmm... I don't know if you can do that and still maintain OS security; anyone remember the "sliding password" security hole?
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