Remove redundant footnote.

[pintos-anon] / doc / vm.texi

diff --git a/doc/vm.texi b/doc/vm.texi
index e22b9be44aa0206984c92a5b48393dcdc9eded2f..90d407d2bc5edd7bd04c7b35ca227488224f89c5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/vm.texi
+++ b/doc/vm.texi
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ All the test programs from the previous project should also work with
 this project.  You should also write programs to test the new features
 introduced in this project.
 
+You will continue to handle Pintos disks and file systems the same way
+you did in the previous assignment (@pxref{Using the File System}).
+
 Your submission should define @code{THREAD_JOIN_IMPLEMENTED} in
 @file{constants.h} (@pxref{Conditional Compilation}).
 
@@ -253,9 +256,7 @@ It is impossible to predict how large the stack will grow at compile
 time, so we must allocate pages as necessary.  You should only allocate
 additional pages if they ``appear'' to be stack accesses.  You must
 devise a heuristic that attempts to distinguish stack accesses from
-other accesses.@footnote{You might find it useful to know that the
-80@var{x}86 instruction @code{pusha} pushes all 8 registers (32 bytes)
-on the stack at once.}  Document and explain the heuristic in your
+other accesses.  Document and explain the heuristic in your
 design documentation.
 
 The first stack page need not be loaded lazily.  You can initialize it
@@ -376,7 +377,11 @@ is simply an outline of our suggested implementation.
 
 Implement paging to and from files and the swap disk.  You may use the
 disk on interface @code{hd1:1} as the swap disk, using the disk
-interface prototyped in @code{devices/disk.h}.
+interface prototyped in @code{devices/disk.h}.  From the @file{vm/build}
+directory, use the command @code{pintos make-disk swap.dsk @var{n}} to
+create an @var{n} MB swap disk named @file{swap.dsk}.  Afterward,
+@file{swap.dsk} will automatically be attached when you run
+@command{pintos}.
 
 You will need routines to move a page from memory to disk and from
 disk to memory, where ``disk'' is either a file or the swap disk.  If