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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:49:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45477EA8.8060809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45477912.7070903@ti.uni-mannheim.de>

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?

> I do not see why remap_xxx_range has the limitation, but it is there.
> The question is then: can the limitation be removed, or can we implement
> a new function that maps RAM all at once without the need for a nopage
> implementation?
> 
> In any case, here is the code.

Hmm, interesting. I used remap_pfn_range for this purpose today and it worked (I
double-checked this). I should probably do the rework :(.

regards,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 16:49 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 [this message]
2006-10-31 17:08       ` Franck Bui-Huu
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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