Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Wrapping memory. | Date | Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:53:37 +0000 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > > I would like to have a 64 KBarray (of char), that's trivial, however > > what I would like is for the last 4 KB [yes thankfully this is exactly > > one page... (assume i386)] to reference the same physical memory as the > > first four.
> mmap will do what you need. Create a 60K object on disk and mmap it at > the base address and then 60K further on for 4K.
You said 'assume i386', but just to make it clear - this is likely to break horribly on some non-i386 platforms, due to dcache aliasing. You may find that the second mmap(MAP_FIXED) fails, or if it succeeds then changes made with one virtual address won't be instantly visible through the other mapping. About the best case on such hardware is that Linux will just map the offending page uncached.
-- dwmw2
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