Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 1998 05:18:22 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] New phys_addr() syscall |
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Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote: > > I suppose an alternative, at least for the unpriviledged mlock, > > would be to never allow memory from the low 16M (except on machines > > with 16M or less). > > This may be a good idea in any case, whether or not virt->phys > translations are made available.
Note that this probably means moving the page before locking it, or people on 32M machines will have a fairly high probability of failure.
-- Raul
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