Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:10:30 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: pte-highmem vs UKVA (was: object-based rmap and pte-highmem) |
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:07:42PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Using UKVA for PTEs seems to be a better way to implement pte-highmem to me. > If you're walking another processes' pagetables, you just kmap them as now, > but I think this will avoid most of the kmap'ing (if we have space for two > sets of pagetables so we can do a little bit of trickery at fork time).
Another term for "UKVA for pagetables only" is "recursive pagetables", if this helps clarify anything.
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