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Subject: Re: Looking for links: Why Linux Doesn't Page Kernel Memory?
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Russell Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org>
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On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:59, Russell Lewis wrote:

> I have spent some time working on AIX, which pages its kernel memory. 
>  It pins the interrupt handler functions, and any data that they access, 
> but does not pin the other code.
> 
> I'm looking for links as to why (unless I'm mistaken) Linux doesn't do 
> this, so I can better understand the system.

Better question is, why would we have page-able kernel memory?

It complicates kernel-space drastically for little gain.  It is not that
we cannot, or there is a specific technical reason why not - just an
issue of taste.  And lack of drugs.

	Robert Love

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