I am looking at a problem that might be too difficult to solve, or might not if I'm missing something so I thought I'd bounce it off this group,
Basically I have an application in userspace who's ".data" section _has_ to be loaded into particular locations in physical memory. That is, there is a chunk of physical memory that has to contain the .data section and no other part of physical memory should. What is the easiest way to do this? I guess, changes might be required to the ELF loaders in fs/bin*.c. Any other tricks? Is it non-trivial to add a new memory zone to the kernel that manages a particular section of physical memory? I thought if a new zone could be added, then we could possibly modify the kernel ELF loader to recognize a specially marked .data section and alloc memory from that special zone when allocating page frames. Let me know if you have any ideas, Thanks, Regards, Joel _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
