Re: 4MB pages and framebuffer access, x11perf results, 2.1.125

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:38:43 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

>> Why you need this? Shound' t X that should set these values at first?
>
>because _my_ card has only a 2MB phsysical framebuffer ;) I wanted the
>trick to work even without the direct cooperation of X.

Woo yes now I understood (also my card has only 2MByte of RAM btw ;-).

>VM_LOCKED is needed to keep the kernel from trying to dereference *pmd in
>swap_out_vma(). (this problem is solved properly by pmd_only())

Hmm yes.

Andrea Arcangeli

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