Alias address support

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1990-07-16

1992-06-02

Popek, Joseph A.

G06F 1208

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051192900

ABSTRACT:
Improvements in workstations which utilizes virtual addressing in multi-user operating systems with write back caches, including operating systems which allow each user to have multiple active processes directed to the support of alias addresses, i.e., two or more virtual addresses which map to the same physical address in real memory Specifically, alias addresses are created so that their low order address bits are identical, modulo the size of the cache (as a minimum) for user programs which use alias addresses generated by the kernel, or wholely within the kernel. For alias addresses in the operating system, rather than user programs, which cannot be made to match in their low order address bits, their pages are assigned as "Don't Cache" pages in the memory management unit (MMU) employed by workstations which utilize virtual addressing.

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