On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:08:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Actually, I do want to know. (I'm writing an x86 formal spec).
> > > Do you mark the pte? :-)
> >
> > And what happens if marking the pte causes a page fault..
>
> x86 pte's are physical. You only get virtual pte's on m68k (and I have no
> idea what those do).
You also get virtual pte's on CPUs that do software tlb reloading. MIPS
kernel once used that and I plan to use that again, allows the exception
handler to assume a flat TLB.
Ralf
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