Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264202AbTGHKrz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:47:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265701AbTGHKrz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:47:55 -0400 Received: from vana.vc.cvut.cz ([147.32.240.58]:31873 "EHLO vana.vc.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264202AbTGHKrJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:47:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:01:22 +0200 From: Petr Vandrovec To: "Peter C. Ndikuwera" Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Thomas Schlichter , Martin Schlemmer , Andrew Morton , smiler@lanil.mine.nu, KML , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm2 + nvidia (and others) Message-ID: <20030708110122.GA10756@vana.vc.cvut.cz> References: <1057590519.12447.6.camel@sm-wks1.lan.irkk.nu> <1057647818.5489.385.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030708072604.GF15452@holomorphy.com> <200307081051.41683.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> <20030708085558.GG15452@holomorphy.com> <1057657046.1819.11.camel@mufasa.ds.co.ug> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1057657046.1819.11.camel@mufasa.ds.co.ug> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1341 Lines: 28 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... > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:51:39AM +0200, Thomas Schlichter wrote: > > > 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/