<quote sender="Bora ?ahin"> > Hello Rithin, > > Saturday, April 10, 2004, 2:59:07 PM, you wrote: > > RKS> Hi, > RKS> I have question regarding the physical memory allocation for the > RKS> kernel code and data. During the initialization of the system, the > RKS> kernel page tables are created and a one to one mapping of the linear > RKS> addresses starting from (0xC0000000)to the physical addresses(starting > RKS> at 0x00000000, correct me if I'm wrong)is created. My question is will > RKS> these pages always be in memory ? > > If i understand you correctly, yes... Say kernel is 2 MB. Then it begins 0xC010_0000 and ends > 0xC030_0000. It maps to physical 0x0010_0000 - 0x0030_0000 addr range. This pages always in mem, never swapped... I heard for some versions 2.4.x[?], it is swapable. Can someone clarify this? Eugene > > -- > Bora Sahin > borasahin.port5.com > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Eugene TEO - <eugeneteo%null!cc!uic!edu> <http://www.anomalistic.org/> 1024D/14A0DDE5 print D851 4574 E357 469C D308 A01E 7321 A38A 14A0 DDE5 main(i) { putchar(182623909 >> (i-1) * 5&31|!!(i<7)<<6) && main(++i); } -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
