Thread (6 messages) flat view 6 messages, 3 authors, 2005-07-14

Re: double kernel page table entry for the same physical page?!

From: Dan Malek <hidden>
Date: 2005-07-13 22:36:29

On Jul 13, 2005, at 2:48 PM, ming lei wrote:
Why linux kernel does such thing and no one consider
it's a problem?
Because we don't write software that accesses the memory
from both of those locations, unless it is very intentional
and necessary.  If you are just fishing for ways software
_could_ do bad things, there are tons of them.  It's our
job to write it so it doesn't :-)

Thanks.


	-- Dan
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