From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
smiler@lanil.mine.nu, KML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:51:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307081051.41683.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708072604.GF15452@holomorphy.com>
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 09:26, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:03:39AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > Bit too specific to -mm2, what about the the attached?
>
> Well, it'd also help to check whether this is a userspace address or
> a kernelspace address. Kernelspace access would only require
> pmd_offset_kernel().
>
> Where are these nvidia and vmware patches, anyway? I can maintain
> fixups for highpmd for the things and it would at least help me a
> bit to see what's going on around the specific areas.
Well, the NVIDIA patches are at
http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html
but I don't know about the VMWARE patches...
Btw, what do you think about the idea of exporting the follow_pages() function
from mm/memory.c to kernel modules? So this could be used for modules
compiled for 2.[56] kernels and the old way just for 2.4 kernels...
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From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
smiler@lanil.mine.nu, KML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:51:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307081051.41683.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708072604.GF15452@holomorphy.com>
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 09:26, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:03:39AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > Bit too specific to -mm2, what about the the attached?
>
> Well, it'd also help to check whether this is a userspace address or
> a kernelspace address. Kernelspace access would only require
> pmd_offset_kernel().
>
> Where are these nvidia and vmware patches, anyway? I can maintain
> fixups for highpmd for the things and it would at least help me a
> bit to see what's going on around the specific areas.
Well, the NVIDIA patches are at
http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html
but I don't know about the VMWARE patches...
Btw, what do you think about the idea of exporting the follow_pages() function
from mm/memory.c to kernel modules? So this could be used for modules
compiled for 2.[56] kernels and the old way just for 2.4 kernels...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-07 15:08 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others) Christian Axelsson
2003-07-07 15:33 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-07 17:09 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-07-07 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-07 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-08 7:03 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-08 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 8:51 ` Thomas Schlichter [this message]
2003-07-08 8:51 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-08 8:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 8:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 9:37 ` Peter C. Ndikuwera
2003-07-08 9:37 ` Peter C. Ndikuwera
2003-07-08 11:01 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-08 11:01 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-08 11:23 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-08 11:23 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-08 11:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 11:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-08 11:35 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-07-08 11:40 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-07-12 1:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-12 1:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-14 12:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-14 12:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-14 16:51 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-14 16:51 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-07 23:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-07 23:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-08 12:37 Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-08 12:37 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-08 12:57 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-08 12:57 ` Flameeyes
2003-07-08 13:02 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-07-08 13:07 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-08 13:07 ` Petr Vandrovec
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