Linux 2.4 VM Documentation

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 15, 2003 @05:20AM from the virtual-documentation dept.

popoutman writes "Mel Gorman has announced the availability of a guide to the 2.4 kernel VM including a walkthrough of the VM code. Anyone interested in obtaining a solid understanding of the Linux 2.4 VM will certainly want to take a look at this documentation. Mel says that the effort is at least several weeks from being finished, but that he's releasing it now with the hopes of getting feedback to be sure he's on the right track. He also notes that the 2.5 VM is still too much of a moving target for him to document it just yet." See also a Kerneltrap story.

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Re:VM: Does it really matter? by GGardner · 2003-01-15 07:30 · Score: 5, Interesting

Um. Don't you mean it enforces memory separation between processes?
Good point -- this is such a given on Unix systems that I didn't word it very well. What I should have said is that it enforces memory separation and protection between most memory segments and most processes, and allows for sharing of segments when explicitly setup. This is perhaps the most important thing the VM system does.