Hi... On 2/5/08, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > TLB entries are filled by H/W and not explicitly by kernel. Whenever MMU > translates VA to PA it caches that translation into TLB. If TLB is full then > MMU uses its own algorithms to replace some entry in TLB e.g. MMU might > consider TLB as circular buffer and replace first entry once TLB is full. AFAIK, by using certain instructions...you can manually insert entry/entries to TLB. Same thing to deleting TLB entries. This kind of technique is used for example on security related software such as PaX/grsecurity regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
