Re: Memory management in Linux

[Walter Liu]

Josef E. Galea wrote:

> Ok I may have got the name wrong :). What I am trying to do is to 
> implement a package on linux similiar to the TreadMarks by Alan Cox et 
> al. (ref. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/amza96treadmarks.html) that runs 
> at kernel level instead of user level. Right now I think that inorder 
> to achieve what I want to do, I have to change the code of the linux 
> virtual memory manager. This is ok for academic purposes (which is my 
> aim) however it severly reduces portability (it is much easier to just 
> load a kernel module than to patch and recompile the kernel).
Kernel-level thread or code can modify  mm_struct,vma,pde,pte,page 
protection bits,etc.
I think that it can modify  everything  in kernel.

Regards,
LWT

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