From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bunk@fs.tum.de, eyal@eyal.emu.id.au,
linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:44:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16535.51307.910896.950581@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040504075555.GB13287@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:55:55 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> said:
Arjan> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
>> >>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:07:04 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> said:
Arjan> Exporting sys_mlock() for a kernel module soooo sounds wrong
Arjan> to me
>> On what grounds? What alternative are you suggesting?
Arjan> if the module wants to pin userspace pages there are plenty
Arjan> of alternatives. Heck I suspect what they want is to mmap a
Arjan> device like most V4L drivers do, instead of doing it the
Arjan> windows way (let the app malloc and then pin)
You may well be right (it's hard to tell what they're using mlock()
for since its called from the binary-only portion of the driver).
However, as long as x86 supports the _syscallN() macros, they won't
change.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-28 2:03 Linux 2.6.6-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2004-04-28 8:48 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-28 9:16 ` Florian Schirmer
2004-04-28 9:52 ` Armin Schindler
2004-04-28 11:56 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-05-01 11:24 ` 2.6.6-rc3: gcc 2.95: cx88 __ucmpdi2 error Adrian Bunk
2004-05-01 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-01 18:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-01 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-04 17:13 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-05-01 20:13 ` 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken Adrian Bunk
2004-05-01 22:02 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-05-01 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-01 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-01 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-01 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-02 0:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-02 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-02 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-02 0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-02 1:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-03 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-03 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-03 18:30 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-03 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-03 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-03 20:56 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-03 21:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-03 22:39 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 7:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-04 16:44 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-05-04 16:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-03 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-03 21:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-03 21:16 ` viro
2004-05-03 21:24 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-03 21:54 ` viro
2004-05-03 22:01 ` viro
2004-05-03 22:33 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-04 0:14 ` viro
2004-05-04 9:23 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-04 12:13 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-04-28 14:34 ` Linux 2.6.6-rc3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-04-28 17:28 ` Linux 2.6.6-rc3 Maciej Soltysiak
2004-04-29 1:02 ` Craig Thomas
2004-04-29 0:59 ` CaT
2004-04-29 17:10 ` Craig Thomas
2004-04-29 2:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-29 15:59 ` Craig Thomas
2004-04-29 17:01 ` Jacek Kawa
2004-04-29 17:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-30 1:05 ` Jacek Kawa
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2004-05-01 23:26 ` 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken Andi Kleen
2004-05-01 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
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