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Let's see a basic example: starting some hardware counters | Let's see a basic example: starting some hardware counters | ||
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As you can see, without any OS you could easily kill your system. The OS allows the separation of privileged and standard resources. | As you can see, without any OS you could easily kill your system. The OS allows the separation of privileged and standard resources. | ||
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This time we want to start the same counter from two different threads. Unfortunately process 1 will be corrupted by process 2. It's pretty bad, process 1 will likely crash. Again the OS is the solution. It replaces the corruption with an error that can be handled by the process. | This time we want to start the same counter from two different threads. Unfortunately process 1 will be corrupted by process 2. It's pretty bad, process 1 will likely crash. Again the OS is the solution. It replaces the corruption with an error that can be handled by the process. | ||
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Let's redo the previous example with a virtualization layer in the OS. | Let's redo the previous example with a virtualization layer in the OS. | ||
mmu- | [[File:mmu-schematic3.png]] | ||
As a side note, virtualization is a common solution for resource management. On the internet you have a logical IP address instead of using the Mac address directly. HDD access can be virtualized too with a tool like LVM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 . Sometimes the whole machine is virtual, see VirtualBox or even PCSX2. | As a side note, virtualization is a common solution for resource management. On the internet you have a logical IP address instead of using the Mac address directly. HDD access can be virtualized too with a tool like LVM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 . Sometimes the whole machine is virtual, see VirtualBox or even PCSX2. | ||
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See below a typical use model of the MMU: | See below a typical use model of the MMU: | ||
mmu- | [[File:mmu-schematic4.png]] | ||