Re: What I suspect
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:43:50 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Also, it would make it impossible to use the global TLB trick, but
> > that may not be worth worrying about.
>
> Why not? If the shared areas are mapped to the same virtual address,
> we can keep the same TLB entry.
Nope. Not if there are some processes that _don't_ do this. And for the
security reasons there must be such processes.
Linus
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