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    <title>Architecture overview</title>

    <section>

        <title>Task</title>

        <para>Task ID - unique 64 bit number. Used for syscalls.</para>

        <para>Contains threads</para>

        <para>Address space is created per task</para>

        <para>Memory mapping is per task</para>

        <para>Context per thread. (Note 2 stacks on IA64).</para>

        <para>IPC answer box associated per task</para>

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    <section>

        <title>Memory management</title>

        <para>

        Zones - linked list (not many zones, so we can afford it. Can be replaced with B-tree in the future)

        Number of zones depends on HW tables. Describe zone allocation/deallocation algoritm

        </para>

        <para>Page tables. 4 level hierarchical and hash directly supported. B+ Tree can be implemented.

        <para>For paging there is an abstract layer</para>

        <para>TLB shootdown implementation (update TLB upon mapping update/remove).

        TLB shootdown ASID/ASID:PAGE/ALL.

        TLB shootdown requests can come in asynchroniously

        so there is a cache of TLB shootdown requests. Upon cache overflow TLB shootdown ALL is executed</para>

        <para>

            Address spaces. Address space area (B+ tree). Only for uspace. Set of syscalls (shrink/extend etc).

            Special address space area type - device - prohibits shrink/extend syscalls to call on it.

            Address space has link to mapping tables (hierarchical - per Address space, hash - global tables).

        </para>

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