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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: David Pinedo <dp@fc.hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Running out of vmalloc space
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:44:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010518184459.A14299@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B045546.312BA42E@fc.hp.com>; from dp@fc.hp.com on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:48:38PM -0600

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:48:38PM -0600, David Pinedo wrote:
> Unfortunately, yes. It has to be in the kernel's virtual address space,
> because the kernel graphics driver initiates DMAs to and from the
> graphics board, which can only be done from the kernel using locked down
> physical memory.

Take a look at drivers/char/raw.c on how to lock down userpages.

	Christoph

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-18 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-17 17:13 David Pinedo
2001-05-17 17:39 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-17 22:48   ` David Pinedo
2001-05-18 11:24     ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-18 11:53     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-18 16:44     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-05-22 23:15     ` David Pinedo
2001-05-23  9:35       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-23 16:14         ` David Pinedo
2001-05-23 16:45           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-26  5:13       ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-17 19:16 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-17 19:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-05-17 20:10     ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-17 18:51 Hua Ji
2001-05-17 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-17 21:58 Hua Ji
2001-05-18  8:21 ` Matti Aarnio

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