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Re: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:26:19PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> I guess I'm not clear what memory model you need for Minix, can you clarify?
> What version of Minix is this? Does it really not do any virtual memory of
> its own? Does it do any tricks at all (demand paging? page sharing?), or
> does it run unpaged or something else?
well, minix uses segmentation but doesn't use paging at all, because it's
build to be portable and not all processers have a mmu unit(i think the arm
doesn't and such). Im using minix 3.
>
> Domains get a hard allocation of real memory, so when the pages get populated
> is entirely up to the guest; Xen won't interfere.
What about page faults? Will I have to have to write code to handle these, or
can I assume that since im only ever using memory thats alreayd mapped, page
faults wont occur?
>
> If you essentially want to pretend you've got a flat, unpaged address space
> then you should be able to just be able to build a set of page tables (for
> instance in your custom builder) and then pretend they're not there. Just
> remember that you can't use the very top part of the address space because
> Xen will be mapped there.
Thats exactly what I want. Does the 64M address space need to have entries in
my page table or can i just make my guest's pagetable from 64M-xxM. Also,
is there are any pages allocated in this 64M address space, will they my
allocated from the domains pool of page frames, or from dom0's?
Best regards
Ivan
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