Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:20:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ummunotify: Userspace support for MMU notifications |
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Hi!
> I am resubmitting this patch because I believe that the discussion > has shown this to be an acceptable solution. I have fixed the 32 bit > build errors, but other than that change, the code is the same as > Roland's V3 patch. > > From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> > > As discussed in <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.openib/61925> > and follow-up messages, libraries using RDMA would like to track > precisely when application code changes memory mapping via free(), > munmap(), etc. Current pure-userspace solutions using malloc hooks > and other tricks are not robust, and the feeling among experts is that > the issue is unfixable without kernel help.
I do not know. I still believe that this does not belong in the kernel; application should not need to trace itself to know what it does.
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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