A short note on implementing “new” machine instructions by software for efficient test of page accessibility

Authors:
Jochen Liedtke
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Year:
1994

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Abstract

Checking a page's accessibility (not mapped, read only or read/write) is sometimes useful for operating system kernels. We describe a technique for extending a processor's instruction set (by software) so that accessibility tests can in most cases be done faster than parsing the page table tree by software.