Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 4 May 2004 09:44:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken |
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>>>>> On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:55:55 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> said:
Arjan> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: >> >>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:07:04 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> said:
Arjan> Exporting sys_mlock() for a kernel module soooo sounds wrong Arjan> to me
>> On what grounds? What alternative are you suggesting?
Arjan> if the module wants to pin userspace pages there are plenty Arjan> of alternatives. Heck I suspect what they want is to mmap a Arjan> device like most V4L drivers do, instead of doing it the Arjan> windows way (let the app malloc and then pin)
You may well be right (it's hard to tell what they're using mlock() for since its called from the binary-only portion of the driver). However, as long as x86 supports the _syscallN() macros, they won't change.
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