kmalloc

[Balroj]

Hi again,

I'm starting now to think about a memory manager to my os. Is there some good info about howto writing a kmalloc and the user side malloc?

I don't know where to start.


thanks for all.

[Solar]

Google for dlmalloc, or Doug Lea's malloc. There's a website with some good material on how the innards of dlmalloc() work, which should give you some insight on kmalloc() too.

[Pype.Clicker]

http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/A ... Management

this might help.

Also check out http://osdever.net/, which is has plenty of MM (http://osdever.net/tutorials.php?cat=6&sort=1), as said in the Getting started page of the wikiFAQ

[Balroj]

thank you guys.

A question about paggin, every process needs to have its own page directory? if yes, where to save them?

[Pype.Clicker]

well, yes. With the exception of Single Address Space OSes, process get their own page directory. Most of the time (see exceptions in mystran tutorial), a process X don't need to map the directory of process Y, so all you need to keep is its physical address in your process structure: that'll be enough to switch threads once required.

[Balroj]

thanks pype for your answear.

i'll now take a look to the you gave me and start working.

thanks once again for all