Re: Question about kernel VM

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 01:30:31 EST


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

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