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Implement COW pages! :^)

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sys$fork() now clones all writable regions with per-page COW bits.
The pages are then mapped read-only and we handle a PF by COWing the pages.

This is quite delightful. Obviously there's lots of work to do still,
and it needs better data structures, but the general concept works.
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Andreas Kling 2018-11-05 13:48:07 +01:00
parent e85c22fe58
commit 2d045d2a64
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Kernel/i386.h
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@ -170,6 +170,30 @@ struct RegisterDump {
WORD ss_if_crossRing;
} PACKED;
struct RegisterDumpWithExceptionCode {
WORD ss;
WORD gs;
WORD fs;
WORD es;
WORD ds;
DWORD edi;
DWORD esi;
DWORD ebp;
DWORD esp;
DWORD ebx;
DWORD edx;
DWORD ecx;
DWORD eax;
WORD exception_code;
WORD __exception_code_padding;
DWORD eip;
WORD cs;
WORD __csPadding;
DWORD eflags;
DWORD esp_if_crossRing;
WORD ss_if_crossRing;
} PACKED;
inline constexpr dword pageBaseOf(dword address)
{
return address & 0xfffff000;