Re: question about ramdisk

[Lee Revell]

"Unix Internals", by Uresh Vahalia (sp?).  This book went everywhere I
did for a year.  I cannot praise it highly enough.  Read that, then get
Robert Love's 'Linux Kernel Programming'.

Lee

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:01, lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you! Can you pls tell me where I can find related references? I've been 
> looking into several books about kernel and part of the kernel code, but no 
> luck so far.. 
> 
> Thanks for any comments!
> 
> Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Followup to:  <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > By author:    lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am learning linux kernel and have a question about ramdisk. When loading
> > an 
> > > executable in ramdisk, is the kernel loading the code all at a time to
> > memory 
> > > and then execute, or is it loading only a page at one time and generating a
> > 
> > > page fault to fetch another page?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any comments! Waiting desprately for your help.
> > > 
> > 
> > Neither.  The code is already in RAM.  It's mapped into the process
> > address space and run in place.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
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