KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net]

KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space

Posted Nov 15, 2017 14:56 UTC (Wed) by cborni (subscriber, #12949)
In reply to: KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space by arjan
Parent article: KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space

I think both SPARC (I am sure about Solaris, but not Linux) and s390 (here I am sure for Linux) have separate kernel and user address spaces.

Posted Nov 16, 2017 2:10 UTC (Thu) by jamesmorris (subscriber, #82698) [Link] (1 responses)

Also, it's an architectural feature, so it's true on Linux.

Posted Nov 16, 2017 12:52 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

So maybe pushing this will motivate architecture designers to provide this feature, like it was done for virtualization.