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Re: who pages the pager?
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: who pages the pager? |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:09:40 -0400 |
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:23 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> Good question. If the pager is not wired then it needs some support
> from an external task which is able to page the pager's code and data.
> This task may or may not be wired, however, eventually, somewhere up
> the paging hierarchy, something needs to be wired.
>
> The next question would be: what does this mechanism look like? I
> don't yet have a good idea.
I can answer this for EROS/Coyotos, but I think that Espen is better
able to answer it for L4, and I'm not clear which system ness is asking
about.
shap