From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com, paulus@samba.org,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: vDSO vs. mm : problems with ppc vdso
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:24:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440424CA.5070206@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141108220.3767.43.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>>Do you gus see any other case where my "special" vma & those kernel
>>>pages in could be a problem ?
>>
>>It sounds just like a sound card DMA buffer to me - that's a solved
>>problem? (Well, we keep unsolving it, but it's a relatively common
>>pattern).
>
>
> Might be ... though I though the later had VM_RESERVED or some similar
> thing ... the trick with that vma is that i don't want any of these
> things to allow for COW ... But yeah, it _looks_ like it will just work
> (well... it appears to work so far anyway....)
>
You should be OK. VM_RESERVED itself is something of an anachronism
these days. If you're not getting your page from the page allocator
then you'll want to make sure each of their count, and mapcount is
reset before allowing them to be mapped.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 5:39 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-28 5:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 6:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-28 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 6:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-28 6:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 7:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-28 12:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-28 10:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-28 12:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-28 17:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-01 2:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-01 2:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-01 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-28 6:27 ` [PATCH] Add mm->task_size and fix powerpc vdso Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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