Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:28:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mdean@best.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lkms versus hard linked drivers Message-ID: <199710060128.SAA03072@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <343826D7.102F11D5@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 5, 97 04:46:31 pm
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> > This is actually a bug, since it relates to the ability to mark areas > > of RAM off limits for reuse, and force the contents of that area out > > to swap; when that region is swapped back in, it will not be to the > > area marked off limits. > > Unfortunatly it doesn't help for the 'wired down' pages the kernel > owns scattered throughout physical memory. Right. This is why I whine about kernel-swapping semi-regularly. I think ELF section attribtion would be enough to handle this *IFF* the hints were placed in the source files (via #pragma?) to let the kernel know which wrired pages could be rewired, and which couldn't. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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