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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Auguste Mome <augustmome@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: way to allocate memory within a range ?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:53:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100224105312.12847047.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17cb70ee1002231646m508f6483mcb667d4e67d9807f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:46:49 +0100
Auguste Mome <augustmome@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'd like to use kmem_cache() system, but need the memory taken from a
> specific range if requested, outside the range otherwise.
> I think about adding new zone and define new GFP flag to either select or
> ignore the zone. Does it sound possible? Then I welcome any hint if you know
> where to add the appropriated test in allocator, how to attach the
> region to the new zone id).
> 
> Or slab/slub system is not designed for this, I should forget it and
> opt for another system?
> 
I think you can find adding a new zone is very hard.
please forget.

But for what purpose you want to specifiy phyiscal address of memory ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24  0:46 Auguste Mome
2010-02-24  1:47 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-24 15:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-21  9:38     ` Auguste Mome
2010-02-24  1:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]

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