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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:35:47 -0600
From: Tommy Reynolds <reynolds@redhat.com>
To: "Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Demand paging - Kernel
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Uttered "Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br>, spoke thus:

> There is a possibility  to do demand paging in kernel space address ?

No.  The entire kernel, and all  of its data structures, are resident in
memory  all of  the time.   Kernel demand  paging is  not possible,  not
necessary and not implemented.

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