From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Hanson, Jonathan M" <jonathan.m.hanson@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Figuring out physical memory regions from a kernel module
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:57:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102528665.25546.981.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C863B68032DED14E8EBA9F71EB8FE4C20596010F@azsmsx406>
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:44, Hanson, Jonathan M wrote:
> Is there a reliable way to tell from a kernel module (currently
> written for 2.4 but will need to work under 2.6 in the future) which
> regions of physical memory are actually available for the kernel and
> processes to use?
Is this a rehashing of the "Walking all the physical memory in an x86
system" thread? :)
Why don't you just tell us what you're actually trying to do in your
module. There's probably a better way.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-08 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 17:44 Figuring out physical memory regions from a kernel module Hanson, Jonathan M
2004-12-08 17:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-08 17:57 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-12-09 6:25 ` Vivek Goyal
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-08 17:54 Hanson, Jonathan M
2004-12-08 18:28 Hanson, Jonathan M
2004-12-08 18:40 ` Dave Hansen
2004-12-08 21:26 Hanson, Jonathan M
2004-12-08 21:38 ` Dave Hansen
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