Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:49:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:49:45 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.hamburg.pop.de ([195.222.210.86]:4 "EHLO smtp-out.hamburg.pop.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:49:24 -0400 Message-Id: <3BBD742C.41163A6B@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:49:48 +0200 From: Bernd Harries Reply-To: bha@gmx.de Organization: STN-Atlas Elektronik X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: German/Germany, de-DE, en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: __get_free_pages(): is the MEM really mine? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ingo, The problem with mmapping a Kernel buffer to userspace is still there . It appears that __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, max_order) alone is not enough to request a reliable buffer. On Monday I already sent a message to the list which you may have overseen. In my driver I have now the normal method on minor 26 and Roman Zippel's method on minor 27. I have used minor 27 quite heavy already and it appears stable. Using minor 26 makes the system instable quite instantly. I would like you to try my driver either on my system via remote login or I could try to reproduce the effect without DMA accesses to the buffer and modify the driver so that you can try it without hardware in your Computer. Is one of these 2 ways possible for you? Thanks, -- Bernd Harries bha@gmx.de http://bharries.freeyellow.com bharries@web.de Tel. +49 421 809 7343 priv. | MSB First! harries@stn-atlas.de +49 421 457 3966 offi. | Linux-m68k bernd@linux-m68k.org +49 172 139 6054 handy | Medusa T40 - 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/