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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Memory management questions/not plan-9 specific
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2007 09:24:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11F071B3-1B01-4272-9EA4-1C2BD50BCC0B@telus.net> (raw)

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I have an application I'm building which requires OS support to allow  
a user-space function to fill a page on page-faults.  Ideally, I  
could reserve a chunk of address space but not back it with memory,  
and then on fault my handler would serve out data from some small  
cache of user-managed physical pages.

My google-fu has been weak in finding such a system-level API in any  
OS.  Has this got a name I should be searching on?  I can't believe  
no-one has implemented user-level page replacement.

Thanks,
    Paul

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 17:24 Paul Lalonde [this message]
2007-11-06 17:35 ` Philippe Anel
2007-11-06 17:50   ` Philippe Anel
2007-11-06 17:51 ` ron minnich
2007-11-06 18:29 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-11-06 17:47   ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-06 19:08     ` Robert William Fuller
2007-11-06 18:28       ` ron minnich
2007-11-06 20:12         ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-09  9:30 ` Dave Eckhardt

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