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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
Conflicts:
microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
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| -rw-r--r-- | microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn | 28 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn index 67c10713..7b6015bb 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn @@ -1,19 +1,13 @@ -[[license text=""" -Copyright © 2002, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the -terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version -published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no -Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included -in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]]. - -By contributing to this page, you agree to assign copyright for your -contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Foundation -promises to always use either a verbatim copying license or a free -documentation license when publishing your contribution. We grant you back all -your rights under copyright, including the rights to copy, modify, and -redistribute your contributions. -"""]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Mach provides a so-called external pager [[mechanism]]. This mechanism serves to separate *managing memory* from *managing @@ -35,7 +29,7 @@ and the offset at which to install it. (The first time a task maps an object, Mach sends an initialization message to the server including a control capability, which it uses to supply pages to the kernel.) This is essentially -the same as mapping a file into an address space on Unix +the same as mapping a file into an address space on [[Unix]] using `mmap`. When a task [[faults|page_fault]], Mach checks to see if there is a memory |