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From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4547831B.8070704@innova-card.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45477EA8.8060809@gmail.com>

Hi,

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Guillermo Marcus wrote:
>> Hi Jiri,
>>
>> The fact that it does not works with RAM is well documented in LDD3,
>> pages 430++. It says (and I tested) that remap_xxx_range does not work
>> in this case. They suggest a method using nopage, similar to the one I
>> implement.
> 
> Could somebody confirm, that this still holds?

Apparently this restriction has been removed since 2.6.15 when
VM_PFNMAP flag has been introduced, see commit
6aab341e0a28aff100a09831c5300a2994b8b986

Why there's such restriction before 2.6.15, I haven't searched
yet, but any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks
		Franck

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-31  9:19 mmaping a kernel buffer to user space Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:25   ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:49     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 17:08       ` Franck Bui-Huu [this message]
2006-10-31 19:44       ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-31 19:22   ` Russell King
2006-10-31 19:36     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:10 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-10-31 16:33   ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-11-01 11:11 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-11-01 12:58   ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-01 14:00     ` yogeshwar sonawane
2006-11-01 15:06       ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-02  8:31     ` Russell King
2006-11-02 11:31       ` Guillermo Marcus

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