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SubjectRe: question about ramdisk
Thank you! Can you pls tell me where I can find related references? I've been 
looking into several books about kernel and part of the kernel code, but no
luck so far..

Thanks for any comments!

Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>:

> Followup to: <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@core.ece.northwestern.edu>
> By author: lya755@ece.northwestern.edu
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am learning linux kernel and have a question about ramdisk. When loading
> an
> > executable in ramdisk, is the kernel loading the code all at a time to
> memory
> > and then execute, or is it loading only a page at one time and generating a
>
> > page fault to fetch another page?
> >
> > Thanks for any comments! Waiting desprately for your help.
> >
>
> Neither. The code is already in RAM. It's mapped into the process
> address space and run in place.
>
> -hpa
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