Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:45:34 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Load-on-demand. How does the kernel locate the pages on secondary storage? |
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Mohamed El Dawy wrote:
> Assume we have a process running, not all the pages of the process > are in main memory. Some are swapped, and some are just not loaded > yet. > How does the kernel locate those pages on disk? Is there a pointer in > the page table? or is there some place else? Any pointers to source > code in the kernel would be greatly appreciated.
http://linux-mm.org/PageFaultHandling
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