From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:01:22 +0200 From: Petr Vandrovec Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others) Message-ID: <20030708110122.GA10756@vana.vc.cvut.cz> References: <1057590519.12447.6.camel@sm-wks1.lan.irkk.nu> <1057647818.5489.385.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030708072604.GF15452@holomorphy.com> <200307081051.41683.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> <20030708085558.GG15452@holomorphy.com> <1057657046.1819.11.camel@mufasa.ds.co.ug> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1057657046.1819.11.camel@mufasa.ds.co.ug> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Peter C. Ndikuwera" Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Thomas Schlichter , Martin Schlemmer , Andrew Morton , smiler@lanil.mine.nu, KML , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:37:26PM +0300, Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote: > The VMware patches are ... > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-updateXX.tar.gz vmware-any-any-update35.tar.gz should work on 2.5.74-mm2 too. But it is not tested, I have enough troubles with 2.5.74 without mm patches... > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:51:39AM +0200, Thomas Schlichter wrote: > > > Btw, what do you think about the idea of exporting the follow_pages() > > > function from mm/memory.c to kernel modules? So this could be used > > > for modules compiled for 2.[56] kernels and the old way just for 2.4 > > > kernels... > > > > I don't really have an opinion on it, but it's not my call. vmmon started using 'get_user_pages' for locking pages some time ago. Unfortunately userspace needs looking at VA->PA mapping from time to time although it already retrieved this information at the time get_user_pages() was invoked :-( It makes userspace simpler, and it was also much faster than any other solution before pmd/pte moved into the high memory. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org