From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:07:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090807180728.GA1728@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249082419-27718-1-git-send-email-ossama.othman@intel.com>
Hi!
> This driver implements an allocator interface for Moorestown
> restricted access regions (RAR), which are regions of RAM that are
> inaccessible by the CPU when locked down. It is implemented in the
> kernel space since both user space applications and kernel drivers
> will be allocating buffers in Moorestown RARs.
How will userland applications use memory that's not even accessible
to CPU? This is rather new user/kernel API so a documentation would be
nice.
> index 1f73364..8fb9626 100644
> --- a/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config
> +++ b/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.31-rc1
> -# Wed Jul 22 08:39:33 2009
> +# Wed Jul 29 02:59:24 2009
> #
Stray diff? This file is unlikely to be in kernel.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 23:20 Ossama Othman
2009-08-01 7:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-08-01 8:03 ` Joe Perches
2009-08-03 17:35 ` Othman, Ossama
2009-08-03 17:32 ` Othman, Ossama
2009-08-03 17:45 ` Joe Perches
2009-08-03 17:53 ` Othman, Ossama
2009-08-03 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-07 18:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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