Hrm... are you saying that the page tables are shared, but since the page directory is not, a page fault can happen because the current processes' page directory does not contain a PDE yet pointing to the page table? That makes sense, but the page fault handler should notice that the fault happened because the PDE is missing, and just copy the PDE (if it exists) from the system process page directory. As long as the page fault handler does that, then the process management code will not need to do anything special.
Hartmut Birr wrote:
It isn't possible to share the page table in non pae mode. The page table contains the page directories for user and kernel mode. The page directories for kernel mode are always shared except the hyperspace and self mapped page table. On a task switch there is accessed the stack and the thread/process structure of the next and/or the previous thread. A page fault at this point is always a result of a missing page directory. We can remove the call to MmUpdatePageDir before each task switch if we do some changes:
- The kernel stack should never cross a page directory boundary (4MB).
- The old thread should access the stack and the thread/process
structure from the new thread before the thread pointer within the pcr is changed. This may trigger a page fault and sets the page directory within the page table of the old thread.
- The trap handler (KiTrapHandler) should check for a missing page
directory, befor PsGetCurrentThread is called.
- Hartmut