Kernel pagetable of process?

[NAHieu <nahieu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Could anybody tell me which code fills in the kernel pagetable of a process?

I am trying to understand how the kernel page table of a process is
made. When a process is created, fs/exec.c::do_execve() allocate the
mm field with the command:

 bprm->mm = mm_alloc();

in which mm_alloc() creates the pagetable directory with the command:

mm->pgd = pgd_alloc(mm);

However, pgd_alloc() only fills in the pagetable directory the entries
of user-space portion (ie until PAGE_OFFSET only) in
arch/i386/m/pagetable.c::pgd_alloc()

        for (i = 0; i < USER_PTRS_PER_PGD; ++i) {
                pmd_t *pmd = kmem_cache_alloc(pmd_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!pmd)
                        goto out_oom;
                set_pgd(&pgd[i], __pgd(1 + __pa(pmd)));
        }

So how about the kernel pagetable of a process, which has a range of
[PAGE_OFFSET, 0xFFFF:FFFF]? I cannot find the code dealing with the
pagetable of this area.

Another question: as processes share the kernel portion, how a kernel
pagetable part of a process is updated when there are updates in
kernel space?


Many thanks,
H

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