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oscourse-tsinghua / rcore_plus

Rust version of THU uCore OS. Linux compatible.

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Simplify virtual memory management #37

Closed wangrunji0408 closed 5 years ago

wangrunji0408 commented 5 years ago

The current code structure is confusing! The recursive mapping is really hard to understand and make the code more complicated.

BlogOS has replaced recursive mapping by linear mapping all physical memory. See discussions here: https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/545.

Some ideas:

Deprecate InactivePageTable and only access ActivePageTable
- Remove remap_the_kernel from kernel.
- Build a fine page table for kernel in bootloader (as x86_64 did).
- Let MemorySet owns &'static mut ActivePageTable
Move arch-specific page table implementation to memory crate

Harry-Chen commented 5 years ago

@miskcoo is doing similar work on mipsel platform. Maybe he will be interested.