Hi all,
I am new to this forum. anyone here has experience working with an MMU which handles page-fault in RTOS embedded system? Is there a contradiction between page-fault handling (a case where not all the code is resident in RAM/ROM) and RTOS?
I would really appritiate any help on this.
The obvious "contradiction" is the possible insertion of an indefinite time delay at the point the page fault needs to be handled. Many systems will allow you to lock certain pages in memory, to avoid that from happening.
Ok, I understand what you are saying. What do u mean certain memory ? Dont you mean all memory? if certain amount of memory will not reside in RAM will still have this contradiction you mentioned, no ?
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Roberto said "certain pages", not "certain memory". He meant that time-critical portions of code would not be overwritten by the MMU, so that it could be executed without the delay of of swapping it into memory. "Certain pages" meant the the selected memory pages that contains the time-critical code. Locking these into memory means not allowing them to be overwritten.
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