From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers
Date: 23 Feb 2005 03:12:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0wtszeluv.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109112142.6024.119.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
>>>>> "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
Arjan> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:30 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> For userspace it's used by some of the MPI type apps in userland.
Arjan> you got to be kidding. Why are these MPI apps accessing memory
Arjan> that the kernel has mapped cached (eg ram) via /dev/mem?
Oh sorry, I think we're misunderstanding eachother. /dev/mem is used
by lcrash.
Arjan> (eg my proposal is to make /dev/mem to be just device memory
Arjan> not kernel accessable ram; wouldn't that solve the entire issue
Arjan> cleanly ?)
It would kill lcrash support, but sure it would solve this specific
problem. However what happens if someone wants to share say some
texture ram between the kernel and a video card and that has to be
mapped uncached? Though up example here though.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 9:52 [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 10:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 12:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-22 14:41 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-02-22 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 19:35 ` Dave Hansen
2005-02-22 21:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-23 0:48 ` Dave Hansen
2005-02-22 21:34 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 22:39 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 10:01 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-23 22:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-24 16:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-03-10 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 13:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 22:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-22 22:30 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-22 22:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 8:12 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2005-02-23 8:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-03 11:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 12:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-03-04 12:26 ` Jes Sorensen
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2005-02-22 18:05 Luck, Tony
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