From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261375AbVEDS35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 14:29:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261362AbVEDS3D (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 14:29:03 -0400 Received: from rrcs-24-227-247-8.sw.biz.rr.com ([24.227.247.8]:5513 "EHLO emachine.austin.ammasso.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbVEDS2Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 14:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4279142A.8050501@ammasso.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 13:27:54 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Ammasso User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Libor Michalek CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation References: <200544159.Ahk9l0puXy39U6u6@topspin.com> <20050411142213.GC26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52mzs51g5g.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411163342.GE26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <5264yt1cbu.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411180107.GF26127@kalmia.hozed.org> <52oeclyyw3.fsf@topspin.com> <20050411171347.7e05859f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050412180447.E6958@topspin.com> <20050425203110.A9729@topspin.com> In-Reply-To: <20050425203110.A9729@topspin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Libor Michalek wrote: > The program opens the charcter device file descriptor, pins the pages > and waits for a signal, before checking the pages, which is sent to the > process after running some other program which exercises the VM. On older > kernels the check fails, on my 2.6.11 kernel the check succeeds. So > mlock is not needed on top of get_user_pages() as it was before. Libor, When you say "older", what exactly do you mean? I have different test that normally fails with just get_user_pages(), but it works with 2.6.9 and above. I haven't been able to get any kernel earlier than 2.6.9 to compile or boot properly, so I'm having a hard time narrowing down the actual point when get_user_pages() started working. -- Timur Tabi Staff Software Engineer timur.tabi@ammasso.com One thing a Southern boy will never say is, "I don't think duct tape will fix it." -- Ed Smylie, NASA engineer for Apollo 13