Can somebody explain how the MMU walks the page table in RAM when there is a TLB miss and where the FreeBSD code is that sets up the tables? Is there actual OS code involved in the walking or does the OS just set up the code and the MMU walks on it's own? Mostly interested in AMD64. Thanks Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/Received on Thu Dec 14 2006 - 18:32:32 UTC
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