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From: David Howells <dhowells@...>
To: Aubrey Li <aubreylee@...>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@...>, <uaca@...>, <bryan.wu@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, <waltje@...>, <netdev@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007 - 4:58 am

Aubrey Li <aubreylee@gmail.com> wrote:


Because kmalloc() may be able to get us a smaller chunk of memory.  Actually,
calling __get_free_pages() might be a better, and then release the excess
pages.


There are no pagetables in NOMMU-mode.

David
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[PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Sun Apr 8, 11:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Wu, Bryan, (Mon Apr 9, 5:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Robin Getz, (Mon Apr 9, 11:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Tue Apr 10, 8:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Robin Getz, (Tue Apr 10, 7:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Tue Apr 17, 6:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, David Howells, (Wed Apr 18, 11:33 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Fri Apr 20, 12:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Fri Apr 20, 3:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Fri Apr 20, 4:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Fri Apr 20, 4:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Fri Apr 20, 9:14 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Eric Dumazet, (Fri Apr 20, 5:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Fri Apr 20, 6:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Aubrey Li, (Wed Apr 18, 8:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Thu Apr 19, 5:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Robin Getz, (Tue Apr 17, 2:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU , David Howells, (Tue Apr 17, 3:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, David Miller, (Mon Apr 9, 12:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, David Miller, (Mon Apr 9, 2:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Robin Getz, (Mon Apr 9, 4:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP should depend on MMU, Wu, Bryan, (Mon Apr 9, 10:00 pm)