From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH[ Export __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for modules (vmmon)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:42:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099050178.2641.20.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029113837.GD10837@vana.vc.cvut.cz>
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:38 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> ????
>
> Due to rule that not everything should be in kernel, userspace
> picks one of codes needed to switch processor from currently used
> mode & address space to mode VMware needs (ia32 => long, long => ia32,
> PAE <=> non-PAE + cr3 + gdt + idt) maps it into kernel space, and then run
> it as needed. And for running it it must be executable.
so effectively vmware has it's own module loader. quite interesting ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-28 22:11 Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-29 9:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-29 11:38 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-29 11:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-10-29 12:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
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