Re: Allocating a page of memory with a given physical address

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Well, the idea is to make it some kind of elegant enhancement
> that Linus would approve of.
> 
> My idea is to create a new API, call it alloc_phys() or
> get_phys_page() or whatever, that will scan the ???? (whatever
> the virtual memory manager calls those things that keep track of
> unused virtual memory) until it finds a block that points to the
> given physical address.  It then allocates that particular
> block.

I've got two comments on this.

1) it's a horrible kludge, not elegant at all
2) why would the kernel need this? I see absolutely
   no use for this...

regards,

Rik
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