Re: 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others)
From: Petr Vandrovec <hidden>
Date: 2003-07-08 10:47:55
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:37:26PM +0300, Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote:
The VMware patches are ... ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-updateXX.tar.gz
vmware-any-any-update35.tar.gz should work on 2.5.74-mm2 too. But it is not tested, I have enough troubles with 2.5.74 without mm patches...
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:51:39AM +0200, Thomas Schlichter wrote:quoted
Btw, what do you think about the idea of exporting the follow_pages() function from mm/memory.c to kernel modules? So this could be used for modules compiled for 2.[56] kernels and the old way just for 2.4 kernels...I don't really have an opinion on it, but it's not my call.
vmmon started using 'get_user_pages' for locking pages some time ago. Unfortunately userspace needs looking at VA->PA mapping from time to time although it already retrieved this information at the time get_user_pages() was invoked :-( It makes userspace simpler, and it was also much faster than any other solution before pmd/pte moved into the high memory. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"aart@kvack.org"> aart@kvack.org </a>