Re: timeout of 10 usecs

2009-03-15 Thread Razvan Deaconescu
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 00:41 +0300, Denis Borisevich wrote: > Hi! > Is there any way to achieve a timeout of say 10 usecs in kernel module? See udelay[1]. Please note that it does busy-waiting (you can't block/put to sleep the current process for periods less than 1000/HZ milliseconds). Razvan [1

timeout of 10 usecs

2009-03-15 Thread Denis Borisevich
Hi! Is there any way to achieve a timeout of say 10 usecs in kernel module? Thanks! -- Denis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

linux switch_to

2009-03-15 Thread Gaurav Tewari
linux switch_to function uses 3 arguments and very smartly saves the 'prev' task structure across process switches.. what is the use of this trick... -- Regards, Gaurav Tewari

Converting logical address to physical address

2009-03-15 Thread Pravin
Hi, I am working on SKINIT instruction of AMD processor for virtualization support and I need to pass a physical address of my code block. I have loaded this code block in kernel memory, but I am having problems in finding the physical address of this block from linux kernel. I also want to access

Re: any NX memory areas?

2009-03-15 Thread lech
Ok, I got it: http://kerneltrap.org/node/644 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ