Re: how to use TLB to prevent Linux accessing a particular memory region

Really, it sounds more like you want a custom driver that "owns" that region of memory so it's marked as used and this driver is the gate keeper. I wonder if the console frame buffer driver for the mips ip32 arch might be a good example for you as it swallows a several meg chunk of memory fo

Re: Average number of instructions per line of kernel code

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mohamed Bamakhrama wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding the average number of assembly instructions per line of kernel code. I know that this is a difficult question since it depends on many factors such as the instruction set Here's a quick answer, not the best, but

Re: OOM killer???

Just to throw my own observations into the war, I have to agree with David K. here. This needs to be some sort of module and/or interface. Get the policy into a replaceable user space module. One of the hot areas for the kernel right now is for embedded systems. They need an entirely different

Re: 2.4.0-test6 network socket problems

Thanks Allen, you're exactly right. I'm charged with the task of finding lots of nasties like that in our old code base where a number of things were just hacked in down and dirty. Our embeded environment moved from XINU on an SH2/SH3 with no mmu support and a BSD protocol stack we hacked in ou

Re: 2.4.0-test6 network socket problems

I've found the problem. This type of loop does not work: do { alarm(t); read(fd); if (EINT) exception(); else alarm(0); } while (data); There are some semantics here that differ from other *nix where this works. The read() won't come out when the alarm comes, and

2.4.0-test6 network socket problems

n the skb. I would appreciate it if anyone more familiar with this code could point me better to what I should be looking at, or at least explain what should be happening that isn't. TIA, -S- -- J. Scott Kasten Email: jsk AT tetracon-eng DOT net "In most cases, all an argument