[coyotos-dev] Moving to one address space

[Christopher Nelson]

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> This reduces the number of mapping tables we need to build, simplifies
> the fault handling logic and the design, and significantly reduces the
> number of GPTs required for typical processes.


Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you mean by single address space, but
doesn't this vastly reduce the memory available to processes by virtue of
the fact that they now all share the 4gb address space?

It seems to me that you mean that all processes will now share hardware page
tables.  I can see how this would be cool, allowing processes to far more
easily share memory.  I can also see how this might be cool for dynamic
libraries.

Perhaps you intend for pointers to become 64-bit capabilities or something
similar?

-={C}=-
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