Re: large frame size warning when compiling

2014-05-09 Thread Paul Davies C
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Can mm_struct of a process be null?

2013-11-15 Thread Paul Davies C
Hi, I happen to find this code snippet in the kernel source : **/*struct mm_struct *mm=current-mm**;** ** /* some other code */ **if(mm){ /*==Why is **this here? */** **/*read the contents by locking*/** **} */The/if /checks whether the mm_struct of the current process

Module that enforces etc/limits.conf

2013-10-22 Thread Paul Davies C
Hi, May I know which kernel module / code part that enforce the limits specified in /etc/limits.conf file? ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Mapping of ZONE_HIGHMEM in kernel address space in 32bit x86

2013-05-14 Thread Paul Davies C
does the allocating of physical memory and maybe swap space. -- *Regards,* *Paul Davies C* vivafoss.blogspot.com ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Davies C
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Re: Intercepting a system call

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Davies C
You can access the code also from the below link. https://gist.github.com/4634681 On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Paul Davies C pauldavi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, [1] is the module I wrote for intercepting the system call fork(). I have taken the conventional way of hooking the system call

Re: Intercepting a system call

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Davies C
think? On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Paul Davies C pauldavi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, [1] is the module I wrote for intercepting the system call fork(). I have taken the conventional way of hooking the system call. Firstly I found out the address of the sys_call_table from the System.map