Hello,
I am trying to understand the page fault handling and MMU. These are my queries
1) What is the exact difference between the protection flags in vm_area_struct and pte's protection flags of the page.
Does the field "pgprot_t vm_page_prot" in vm_area_struct contain the protection flags of all the pages in that vm_area? If so how to set these for individual pages?
But could not find any answer to this post.
2) Does MMU (x86 arch) check the vm_area prot flags or the page's pte flags to cause the page fault?
Please help !!
Thanks,
Ravali
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