From: Tommy Reynolds <reynolds@redhat.com>
To: "Steffen Persvold" <sp@scali.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Short question about the mmap method
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:59:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104145949.682d51c4.reynolds@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C360FD5.91285F5D@scali.no>
In-Reply-To: <3C360FD5.91285F5D@scali.no>
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Uttered "Steffen Persvold" <sp@scali.no>, spoke thus:
> Hi lkml readers,
>
> I have a question regarding drivers implementing the mmap and nopage methods.
> In some references I've read that pages in kernel allocated memory (either
> allocated with kmalloc, vmalloc or__get_free_pages) should be set to reserved
> (mem_map_reserve or set_bit(PG_reserved, page->flags) before they can be
> mmap'ed to guarantee that they can't be swapped out. Is this true ?
[kv]malloc memory is _never_ subject to paging and can be mmap'ed with a
vengeance without resorting to mucking about with marking pages or the like.
You're working too hard ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 20:25 Steffen Persvold
2002-01-04 20:59 ` Tommy Reynolds [this message]
2002-01-05 1:07 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-01-05 2:56 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-01-05 3:59 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-01-05 14:17 ` Roman Zippel
2002-01-05 17:52 Douglas Gilbert
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