From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:15:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" Subject: Re: page faults In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: James Simmons Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Linux MM List-ID: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, James Simmons wrote: > Thank you for that answer. I remember you told me that threads under linux > is defined as two processes sharing the same memory. So when a minor > page fault happens by anyone one process will both process page tables get > updated? Or does the other process will have a minor page itself > independent of the other process? Threads share the same page tables, hence the same memory. The other task might end up with a minor fault, but after it aquires the semaphore, it will discover the pte is already freshly faulted in. -ben -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/