Re: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Aug 08 2009 - 11:24:05 EST


Hi!

> This driver implements an allocator interface for Moorestown
> restricted access regions (RAR), which are regions of RAM that are
> inaccessible by the CPU when locked down. It is implemented in the
> kernel space since both user space applications and kernel drivers
> will be allocating buffers in Moorestown RARs.

How will userland applications use memory that's not even accessible
to CPU? This is rather new user/kernel API so a documentation would be
nice.


> index 1f73364..8fb9626 100644
> --- a/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config
> +++ b/kernel-mrst-alpha2.config
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.31-rc1
> -# Wed Jul 22 08:39:33 2009
> +# Wed Jul 29 02:59:24 2009
> #

Stray diff? This file is unlikely to be in kernel.
Pavel

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