Low memory not pageable on Freescale BookE

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 15 11:55:02 EST 2006


On Nov 14, 2006, at 6:38 PM, M Ptich wrote:

>> 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).

If you are doing at the application level then its already paged.   
The TLB1 stuff is just for kernel memory.

- k



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