Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Using IPC-calls in a device driver | Date | Mon, 31 May 1999 19:11:08 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> We are a couple of students trying to create a network memory pager on a > linux system. The pager is implemented as a device driver, which should be > mounted as swapping device. However, we rely heavily on inter process > communication. So far we have not been able to figure out how to use these > calls in the driver. Or even if it is possible at all.
If you are swapping I doubt you can. A swap handler cannot do any memory allocations or may deadlock. Thats why we dont allow NFS swap for example.
Alan
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