On Apr 11, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Axel Dörfler wrote:
Hi Zhao, "Zhao Shuai" <upczhsh@xxxxxxx> wrote:I was investigating the Haiku vm code these days and found it a little hard to understand without directions. It's a pity that Haiku still doesn't have its vm tutorial. So I intend to write something and hope it can help the kernel newbies to get a quick start.
Also doesn't show how vm_caches can chain together to handle shadow regions and such. A long time ago I put together a similar diagram for the newos vm, so most of it should still apply:Page CacheAreas are also just views (with a certain offset and size) of such vm_cache.
http://newos.org/txt/vm.txt Travis