Re: who pages the pager?

[Espen Skoglund]

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> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:23 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
>> 
>>> Good question.  If the pager is not wired then it needs some support
>>> from an external task which is able to page the pager's code and data.
>>> This task may or may not be wired, however, eventually, somewhere up
>>> the paging hierarchy, something needs to be wired.
>>> 
>>> The next question would be: what does this mechanism look like?  I
>>> don't yet have a good idea.
>> 
>> 
>> I can answer this for EROS/Coyotos, but I think that Espen is better
>> able to answer it for L4, and I'm not clear which system ness is asking
>> about.

> hm... I don't know my self. Maybye both answers are interesting.

I'd say that the answer (in the L4 case at least) very much depends on
the system you're building on top.

        eSk