Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Feb 2001 08:32:18 -0700 | From | Jeff Hartmann <> | Subject | Re: paging question |
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Daniel Stodden wrote:
> hi. > > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. > > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of contiguous ram.
Your unlikely to get 1 MB of contigous ram unless you grab it very early in the boot process. This means your driver needs to be built into the kernel, it can't be a module.
> > > is it possible to resize such an area later on? i mean: is there some > mechanism available in the kernel to enlarge such a region even if the > area beyond it is already in use?
No.
> > > i understand that this is pretty impossible if some entity depends on > correct physical locations of the pages in question. but couldn't for > example userland memory be copied elsewhere and its new location > simply remapped?
If we had reverse page tables we could perhaps do this sort of remapping. Currently there is no way to detrimine which physical page maps to which userland page without scanning every processes page tables. There is also the possibility that the memory is used by the kernel, in which case your basically out of luck.
-Jeff
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