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Kernel: Enable PAE (Physical Address Extension)

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Introduce one more (CPU) indirection layer in the paging code: the page
directory pointer table (PDPT). Each PageDirectory now has 4 separate
PageDirectoryEntry arrays, governing 1 GB of VM each.

A really neat side-effect of this is that we can now share the physical
page containing the >=3GB kernel-only address space metadata between
all processes, instead of lazily cloning it on page faults.

This will give us access to the NX (No eXecute) bit, allowing us to
prevent execution of memory that's not supposed to be executed.
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Andreas Kling 2019-12-25 11:22:16 +01:00
parent 4883176fd8
commit 52deb09382
7 changed files with 84 additions and 81 deletions
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Kernel/VM/MemoryManager.h
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@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ public:
PageFaultResponse handle_page_fault(const PageFault&);
void populate_page_directory(PageDirectory&);
void enter_process_paging_scope(Process&);
bool validate_user_stack(const Process&, VirtualAddress) const;
@ -114,8 +112,7 @@ private:
PageTableEntry& ensure_pte(PageDirectory&, VirtualAddress);
RefPtr<PageDirectory> m_kernel_page_directory;
PageTableEntry* m_page_table_zero { nullptr };
PageTableEntry* m_page_table_one { nullptr };
PageTableEntry* m_low_page_tables[4] { nullptr };
VirtualAddress m_quickmap_addr;