X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fvm.texi;h=c2943cacecaaac2d698176ee8969b195c1518a46;hb=8bc47e15da36b072924f8281688ea92935ae1c18;hp=3210bbcc83dd021a16f48ad78f7a9284ead20f21;hpb=111f774134415bb8da9b3882175603f2693026d9;p=pintos-anon diff --git a/doc/vm.texi b/doc/vm.texi index 3210bbc..c2943ca 100644 --- a/doc/vm.texi +++ b/doc/vm.texi @@ -590,16 +590,14 @@ user stack pointer. You will need to arrange another way, such as saving @code{esp} into @struct{thread} on the initial transition from user to kernel mode. -You may impose some absolute limit on stack size, as do most OSes. +You should impose some absolute limit on stack size, as do most OSes. Some OSes make the limit user-adjustable, e.g.@: with the @command{ulimit} command on many Unix systems. On many GNU/Linux systems, the default limit is 8 MB. -The first stack page need not be allocated lazily. You can initialize -it with the command line arguments at load time, with no need to wait -for it to be faulted in. (Even if you did wait, the very first -instruction in the user program is likely to be one that faults in the -page.) +The first stack page need not be allocated lazily. You can allocate +and initialize it with the command line arguments at load time, with +no need to wait for it to be faulted in. All stack pages should be candidates for eviction. An evicted stack page should be written to swap. @@ -716,6 +714,12 @@ process. If you carefully designed your data structures, sharing of read-only pages should not make this part significantly harder. +@item How do we resume a process after we have handled a page fault? + +Returning from @func{page_fault} resumes the current user process +(@pxref{Internal Interrupt Handling}). +It will then retry the instruction to which the instruction pointer points. + @item Does the virtual memory system need to support data segment growth? No. The size of the data segment is determined by the linker. We still