Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:07:28 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3 |
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Hi!
> This driver implements an allocator interface for Moorestown > restricted access regions (RAR), which are regions of RAM that are > inaccessible by the CPU when locked down. It is implemented in the > kernel space since both user space applications and kernel drivers > will be allocating buffers in Moorestown RARs.
How will userland applications use memory that's not even accessible to CPU? This is rather new user/kernel API so a documentation would be nice.
> index 1f73364..8fb9626 100644 > --- a/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config > +++ b/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.31-rc1 > -# Wed Jul 22 08:39:33 2009 > +# Wed Jul 29 02:59:24 2009 > #
Stray diff? This file is unlikely to be in kernel. Pavel
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