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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: Linux MM mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Allocating a page of memory with a given physical address
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 18:04:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000609230528Z131165-283+98@kanga.kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000609232058.C28878@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>

** Reply to message from Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> on Fri, 9
Jun 2000 23:20:58 +0200


> Even if you implement that, there will be times when you simply can't
> have the page.  Sometimes the current owner of the page can't allow it
> to be moved.  This happens for vmalloc()ed memory and user processes
> that that use mlock().  This includes MP3 players and security
> products...

That's okay.  If it page is taken, then the caller will have to deal with it. 



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  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-09 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-08 21:44 Timur Tabi
2000-06-08 21:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-08 21:58   ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-08 22:15     ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-08 22:27       ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-08 23:03         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-08 23:09         ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-08 23:29           ` Timur Tabi
2000-06-09 21:20             ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-09 23:04               ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2000-06-09 21:34             ` Rik van Riel

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