Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2011-03-24

Re: vmsplice bad address

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From: Guillaume Dargaud <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-24 14:34:25

On Monday 07 March 2011 10:35:44 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I'm not completely surprised ... I wouldn't expect vmsplice to work
on /dev/mem ... No struct page backing the memory for example.
So how would that work to do zero-copy ? 
Somebody gave me a hint of marking the memory regions as iomem, do a ioremap then mmap and vmsplice but that's a 
mouthful...
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Guillaume Dargaud
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