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-<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
-"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
-and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
-<!-- Initial Contributors:
-    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
-Contributors: 
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-  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
-<concept id="GUID-9781C95D-4606-57FB-9F62-B7CC45DDD968" xml:lang="en"><title>Flexible
-Memory Model Guide</title><shortdesc>Overview of the Symbian platform flexible memory model</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
-<section id="GUID-8F4D5E77-D4CC-48DD-AA11-77191A19C6FE"><title>Design</title> <p>The flexible memory model implements the
-address space using these objects: </p> <ul>
-<li id="GUID-416CE3F1-C16C-5686-BAAD-79CAD188DC28"><p>memory objects, </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-512A3E93-FAF3-593B-A490-5BB8C7A0925D"><p>memory managers, </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-31E356AA-A82F-5BDD-BEB5-1F97596BC642"><p>memory mappings, and </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-E67E19A3-E970-575E-9D80-FD50F756EB8B"><p>address space objects. </p> </li>
-</ul> </section>
-<section id="GUID-50C7D629-8818-4863-AE74-EF9835D1BC97"><title>Memory Objects</title><p>A memory object abstracts physical
-memory. It represents storage for chunks, code and thread stacks. A memory
-object is implemented as an array of physical page addresses. Attributes such
-as 'cached', 'uncached', 'device' and 'strongly ordered' are common to all
-the memory in the object. </p></section>
-<section id="GUID-F1B26B2A-87F8-4363-902A-525B6AB92F8E"><title>Memory Managers</title><p>A memory manager performs operations
-on memory objects such as allocating and freeing memory. Different types of
-memory have different kinds of memory manager, for instance paged and unpaged
-memory. </p></section>
-<section id="GUID-A2CEF774-C4E9-4401-81A7-EB038C52BDC6"><title>Memory Mappings</title><p>Memory mappings exist to map virtual
-memory on to physical memory. One or more memory mappings are associated with
-one or more memory objects and their managers. Permissions, sharing and pinning
-are implemented at the level of the memory mapping. Permissions include read/write
-permissions, user/supervisor permissions and execute/no-execute permissions. </p></section>
-<section id="GUID-FA9AD4F3-863F-4471-9DB4-AFAF3525D657"><title>Address Space Objects</title><p>Address space objects model
-the address space of a process, that is the virtual address region used by
-the process. An address space contains a list of memory mappings through which
-the corresponding physical memory is accessed. </p></section>
-<section id="GUID-B810FD8F-9C64-40D7-ABCD-87708A7EDBB0"><title>Changes</title> <p>Kernel developers need to know about certain
-differences between the flexible memory model and the multiple memory model
-which was used in previous versions of Symbian platform. </p> <p>In the multiple
-memory model, memory was managed at the level of the chunk. Chunks were wrapped
-round page tables of 1Mb and permissions and sharing were properties of the
-chunk. Address space was partitioned into local, shareable and code memory
-and shared memory had to be reserved at this level (that is, in units of 1Mb). </p> <p>The
-transition to the flexible memory model involved two important changes. </p> <ul>
-<li id="GUID-F1BA82A1-FC0B-5D27-8106-61313B0FC7C8"><p>Two processes sharing
-the same chunk may use different virtual addresses to access it. Old code
-which assumes that a chunk has a single virtual address may need to be rewritten. </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-FB107346-DB07-5BC6-AA04-A94E0E62F958"><p>The kernel no longer
-creates chunks to store thread stacks and static data for each process. </p> </li>
-</ul> <p>In two other respects the multiple memory model and the flexible
-memory model are exactly the same: </p> <ul>
-<li id="GUID-FB17CC7E-7187-5857-A124-4BA7E08F68ED"><p>Hardware chunks are
-addressed globally. </p> </li>
-<li id="GUID-34F3B419-D83A-5EFB-BDAA-2D518E78EC20"><p>Shared chunks have fixed
-kernel addresses which are accessible in supervisor mode. </p> </li>
-</ul> </section>
-<section id="GUID-23B4066A-C3B1-47D9-834E-45F4F17C7222"><title>See Also</title> <p> <xref href="GUID-DB3A6401-D25E-57E7-A8BF-3B9E0DE3B1D6.dita">Flexible
-Memory Model Tutorial</xref>  </p> </section>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-9781C95D-4606-57FB-9F62-B7CC45DDD968" xml:lang="en"><title>Flexible
+Memory Model Guide</title><shortdesc>Overview of the Symbian platform flexible memory model</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<section id="GUID-8F4D5E77-D4CC-48DD-AA11-77191A19C6FE"><title>Design</title> <p>The flexible memory model implements the
+address space using these objects: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-416CE3F1-C16C-5686-BAAD-79CAD188DC28"><p>memory objects, </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-512A3E93-FAF3-593B-A490-5BB8C7A0925D"><p>memory managers, </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-31E356AA-A82F-5BDD-BEB5-1F97596BC642"><p>memory mappings, and </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-E67E19A3-E970-575E-9D80-FD50F756EB8B"><p>address space objects. </p> </li>
+</ul> </section>
+<section id="GUID-50C7D629-8818-4863-AE74-EF9835D1BC97"><title>Memory Objects</title><p>A memory object abstracts physical
+memory. It represents storage for chunks, code and thread stacks. A memory
+object is implemented as an array of physical page addresses. Attributes such
+as 'cached', 'uncached', 'device' and 'strongly ordered' are common to all
+the memory in the object. </p></section>
+<section id="GUID-F1B26B2A-87F8-4363-902A-525B6AB92F8E"><title>Memory Managers</title><p>A memory manager performs operations
+on memory objects such as allocating and freeing memory. Different types of
+memory have different kinds of memory manager, for instance paged and unpaged
+memory. </p></section>
+<section id="GUID-A2CEF774-C4E9-4401-81A7-EB038C52BDC6"><title>Memory Mappings</title><p>Memory mappings exist to map virtual
+memory on to physical memory. One or more memory mappings are associated with
+one or more memory objects and their managers. Permissions, sharing and pinning
+are implemented at the level of the memory mapping. Permissions include read/write
+permissions, user/supervisor permissions and execute/no-execute permissions. </p></section>
+<section id="GUID-FA9AD4F3-863F-4471-9DB4-AFAF3525D657"><title>Address Space Objects</title><p>Address space objects model
+the address space of a process, that is the virtual address region used by
+the process. An address space contains a list of memory mappings through which
+the corresponding physical memory is accessed. </p></section>
+<section id="GUID-B810FD8F-9C64-40D7-ABCD-87708A7EDBB0"><title>Changes</title> <p>Kernel developers need to know about certain
+differences between the flexible memory model and the multiple memory model
+which was used in previous versions of Symbian platform. </p> <p>In the multiple
+memory model, memory was managed at the level of the chunk. Chunks were wrapped
+round page tables of 1Mb and permissions and sharing were properties of the
+chunk. Address space was partitioned into local, shareable and code memory
+and shared memory had to be reserved at this level (that is, in units of 1Mb). </p> <p>The
+transition to the flexible memory model involved two important changes. </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-F1BA82A1-FC0B-5D27-8106-61313B0FC7C8"><p>Two processes sharing
+the same chunk may use different virtual addresses to access it. Old code
+which assumes that a chunk has a single virtual address may need to be rewritten. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-FB107346-DB07-5BC6-AA04-A94E0E62F958"><p>The kernel no longer
+creates chunks to store thread stacks and static data for each process. </p> </li>
+</ul> <p>In two other respects the multiple memory model and the flexible
+memory model are exactly the same: </p> <ul>
+<li id="GUID-FB17CC7E-7187-5857-A124-4BA7E08F68ED"><p>Hardware chunks are
+addressed globally. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-34F3B419-D83A-5EFB-BDAA-2D518E78EC20"><p>Shared chunks have fixed
+kernel addresses which are accessible in supervisor mode. </p> </li>
+</ul> </section>
+<section id="GUID-23B4066A-C3B1-47D9-834E-45F4F17C7222"><title>See Also</title> <p> <xref href="GUID-DB3A6401-D25E-57E7-A8BF-3B9E0DE3B1D6.dita">Flexible
+Memory Model Tutorial</xref>  </p> </section>
 </conbody></concept>
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