Re: [PATCH] New phys_addr() syscall
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 05:18:22 -0400
Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote:
> > I suppose an alternative, at least for the unpriviledged mlock,
> > would be to never allow memory from the low 16M (except on machines
> > with 16M or less).
>
> This may be a good idea in any case, whether or not virt->phys
> translations are made available.
Note that this probably means moving the page before locking it,
or people on 32M machines will have a fairly high probability of
failure.
--
Raul
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