Whoooops indeed. I forgot about this mess...
> Right now all of the magic that makes this work is in the page tables.
> To remove page tables we'd need additional structures all through the
> VM to track anonymous pages, and that's exactly where the FreeBSD VM
> starts to get extremely messy compared to ours.
That's because they still seem to use Mach's object chaining.
There's bound to be a much cleaner solution than whatever it
is they copied over from Mach ;)
regards,
Rik
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