Re: Virtual addresses below 0x8048000

2008-05-19 Thread Vivek Kutal
some historical reasons :) -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: more mm issues: logical versus virtual addresses

2008-04-04 Thread Vivek Kutal
G, can i assume that no space at all will be allocated for high memory since it would be totally pointless? yes (but again its 896mb not 1G) -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: end_stack?

2008-03-30 Thread Vivek Kutal
need to store in in mm_struct. -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: strace and kernel functions!

2008-01-14 Thread Vivek Kutal
/KernelFunctionInstrumentation -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: sys_open fails with error 14

2007-12-07 Thread Vivek Kutal
Sandeep K Sinha wrote: It returns with ENOENT after using set_fs. same code works for me. take a look at this http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110 there is a example given at the end. HTH -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubs

Re: sys_open fails with error 14

2007-12-06 Thread Vivek Kutal
fs(KERNEL_DS) , before calling open. -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Using large memory > 4GB in Linux Kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Vivek Kutal
. HTH -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Question on Kernel Page tables

2007-09-30 Thread Vivek Kutal
th gigabyte of the linear address space". Why only the fourth gigabyte of the linear address space ? Do not the 0-3GB of user mode address space use the page frames of these Zones ? this might help you to clear your doubts http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450 -- Vivek Kutal -- To unsubscribe

Re: Unmap pages from a VMA

2007-07-31 Thread Vivek Kutal
Thomas Petazzoni wrote: Hi, Thanks for your answer. Le Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:01:43 +0530, Vivek Kutal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : You could just reset the present bit of the pages that you want to remap. Now the next access to these pages will generate a fault and your nopage() w

Re: Unmap pages from a VMA

2007-07-30 Thread Vivek Kutal
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