On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Aydin Okutanoglu wrote:
> before all, thank you for your help.
Happy to help, though beware, I'm not an authority on linux vm.
> - when allocate memory from user space it is possible to force the kernel
> to create a new vm_struct for newly allocated memory
Not if the memory is allocated on the heap (i.e. with brk). Perhaps you
could write a driver with an mmap implementation that does the right thing...
> - and it is possible to set user functions to page fault handlers of user pages
No... Again, you could write a driver with an mmap implementation that
overrides vm_ops->nopage though.
Jim
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