Low memory not pageable on Freescale BookE

M Ptich ptich at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 15 11:38:14 EST 2006


>Why do you need low kernel memory to be pageable?

Mainly for debugging purposes - this way we can have guardbands for our 
application stacks, and also for proprietary software that tracks memory 
accesses (for corruption detection).

-Ptich

>>For our application, we need low memory to be mapped with pages,  but it
>>turned out that Freescale BookE maps it with TLB1. Was there any  
>>particular
>>reason why ? I am thinking of changing it, but wondering if there was
>>something fundamental behind it.
>
>Why do you need low kernel memory to be pageable?
>
>- kumar

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