Re: [PATCH[ Export __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for modules (vmmon)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:38 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> ????
> 
> Due to rule that not everything should be in kernel, userspace
> picks one of codes needed to switch processor from currently used
> mode  & address space to mode VMware needs (ia32 => long, long => ia32, 
> PAE <=> non-PAE + cr3 + gdt + idt) maps it into kernel space, and then run 
> it as needed.  And for running it it must be executable.

so effectively vmware has it's own module loader. quite interesting ;)



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