Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2012-02-27

pagetables used in interrupt context

From: subin gangadharan <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-22 02:18:32

Thank you for clearing my doubt.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Dave Hylands [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Subin,

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:47 PM, subin gangadharan
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hi All,

Please correct me if I am wrong. In linux each process will have its
own page tables, so when a interrupt happens processor will switch to
interrupt context
and execute the proper handler. So my doubt, if this is the case,
interrupt hanlder will be using the pagetables of the interrupted
process or is there a separate page table for this.
Yep - that's right. Conceptually you can imagine that the kernel page
tables are replicated in each process, so when the interrupt occurs,
the kernel mappings will always be in effect regardless of which task
is running. How this is actually achieved may vary from architecture
to architecture.

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Dave Hylands
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http://www.davehylands.com


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Subin Gangadharan

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