From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
To: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: MMIO regions
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:38:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910041028350.7066-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com> (raw)
Howdy again!!
I noticed something for SMP machines with all the dicussion about
concurrent access to memory regions. What happens when you have two
processes that have both mmapped the same MMIO region for some card.
Doesn't have to be a video card,. On a SMP machine it is possible that
both processes could access the same region at the same time. This could
cause the card to go into a indeterminate state. Even lock the machine.
Does their exist a way to handle this? Also some cards have mulitple MMIO
regions. What if a process mmaps one MMIO region of this card and another
process mmaps another MMIO region of this card. Now process one could
alter the card in such a way it could effect the results that process two
is expecting. How is this dealt with? Is it dealt with? If not what would
be a good way to handle this?
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next reply other threads:[~1999-10-04 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-04 14:38 James Simmons [this message]
1999-10-04 15:31 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 15:52 ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:02 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 17:27 ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 17:56 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 18:26 ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-06 20:15 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-10-11 23:14 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:57 ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 18:29 ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-07 19:40 ` James Simmons
1999-10-10 11:24 ` Rik Faith
1999-10-10 14:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 18:46 ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11 0:21 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 10:59 ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11 3:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 14:21 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 16:58 ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-10-04 18:27 ` James Simmons
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