2001-11-09 06:23:33

by Louis E Garcia II

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Question about kernel VM

Do all ports of the kernel, like ix86, ia64, sparc, alpha, and ppc,
share one VM subsystem or do each port have their own???

Louis




2001-11-09 06:30:33

by Robert Love

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: Question about kernel VM

On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 01:23, Louis Garcia wrote:
> Do all ports of the kernel, like ix86, ia64, sparc, alpha, and ppc,
> share one VM subsystem or do each port have their own???

They share the same VM, located in mm/

There is arch-dependent VM code, in arch/<arch>/mm, but that is mostly
support for specific memory functions like initializing the address
space.

Robert Love