Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:20:32 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: Pranav Sawargaonkar <pranav.sawargaonkar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing Pagetable of a process Message-ID: <ac7deb50601170150t51d2341ai45d3ab9255ec5062@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5007e1a40601170109x6f8c7b03kb44f5f5a43ebe3be@mail.gmail.com> References: <5007e1a40601161013q5692f79dge001ceac5de991df@mail.gmail.com> <ac7deb50601162244x8178b2bo41d95d72f85e9434@mail.gmail.com> <5007e1a40601170109x6f8c7b03kb44f5f5a43ebe3be@mail.gmail.com>
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there is some code in dragonflybsd to checkpoint a process. It will write the pagetable to disk. Since the internal data structures aren't much different -you should be able to copy over that code to freebsd. But you will run into problems with file descriptors that are not of type vnode (eg fifo/sockets/pipes etc..). regards -kamal On 1/17/06, Pranav Sawargaonkar <pranav.sawargaonkar@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I wanted to save the whole context of the process, thats why I wan= t > the access to each page allocated to the process of our interest. And > further I want to write all these pages on to swap. > The final objective is to save the context of a stopped process on > the swap and restore the context afterwards and resume the process.Whatfu= nctions can be used to read/write to swap ? I have succeeded > in accessing the vmspace through the 'struct proc' type pointer. > > TIA. > > Best regards, > Pranav > > On 1/17/06, Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp@acm.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 1/16/06, Pranav Sawargaonkar < pranav.sawargaonkar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > I want to access pagetable of a perticular process. > > > How i should get it?Is it possible to access by using pointer of type > > > 'struct proc'? > > > > > > by accessimg the vmspace for the process. > > > > Also i want to access each page referenced in > > > pagetable of that process by writing my module how i can achieve > > > this? > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > the pagetable is for translating virtual to physical addresses If you > > want the contents of the page -you don't need to worry about the transl= ation > > scheme. Im not sure I understand what you are looking for?? > > > > regards > > -kamal > > > > > > -Pranav > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org > > > " > > > > > > > >
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