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IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10:
<braunr> antrik: about our physical memory limitations, i told you some
time ago that part of it was due to the linux drivers
<braunr> and i mentioned the paper concerning the integration of the linux
drivers written at the time
<braunr> it does indeed tell that mach, which used the common 3G->4G area
for the kernel space had to be adapted
<braunr> because linux used segmentation so that kernel addresses matched
physical addresses
<braunr> and it looks like some (many) drivers require that
<braunr> our current gnumach actually does this (which i found surprising
when i first found it)
<braunr> and i believe the easy solution to exceed this limitation is to
use a strategy similar to what linux still does on i386
<braunr> some highmem support
<braunr> we could alter the vm_resident module so that, by default, it
still looks for pages in the low 0-800 (or 0-1800 on debian patched
kernels) area
<braunr> but for everything else than the kernel, e.g. all user processes
<braunr> we could use a flag or a specialized function that would first
look in the highmem pool for available physical pages to map
<braunr> the only thing i'm not yet sure of is about user/kernel transfers
<braunr> if virtual addresses and copies are always cleanly done, then it's
ok
<braunr> and i really hope our linux drivers do so :)
<braunr> (i mean ,the glue code ofc)
2011-10-23:
<youpi> braunr: I believe, like Linus, that highmem support is a nightmare
<antrik> braunr: uhm... the drivers want virtual addressses to match
physical ones? I guess that means switching address spaces before any
driver code is executed?...
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