From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: how to tell if arbitrary kernel memory address is backed by physical memory?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:27:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904171224530.7261@qirst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E8AB11.4000708@nortel.com>
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:
> We have a mips board that appears to have holes in the lowmem mappings such
> that blindly walking all of it causes problems. I assume the allocator knows
> about these holes and simply doesn't assign memory at those addresses.
Yes memory is registered in distinct ranges during boot.
> We may have found a solution though...it looks like virt_addr_valid() returns
> false for the problematic addresses. Would it be reasonable to call this once
> for each page before trying to access it?
Sure. Note that virt_addr_valid only ensures that there is a page
struct for that address. You may need to ensure that PageReserved(page) is
false if you want to make sure that you have actual memory there that is
valid to use.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 15:37 Chris Friesen
2009-04-16 20:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 16:15 ` Chris Friesen
2009-04-17 16:27 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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