Re: Load-on-demand. How does the kernel locate the pages on secondary storage?

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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Mohamed El Dawy wrote:

>  Assume we have a process running, not all the pages of the process
> are in main memory. Some are swapped, and some are just not loaded
> yet.
> How does the kernel locate those pages on disk? Is there a pointer in
> the page table? or is there some place else? Any pointers to source
> code in the kernel would be greatly appreciated.

http://linux-mm.org/PageFaultHandling

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