Re: **** How to lock memory pages?

From: Frederik Deweerdt
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 14:03:33 EST


Le 29/06/05 11:37 -0400, Sreeni écrivit:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to lock a particular portion of the memory pages during
> kernel bootup? I want to re-use these pages when I load my
> application. I *don't* wanna use the idea of reserving some physical
> memory and using ioremap. I want something that kernel should be able
> to manage this memory but I don't want any other application to use
> this memory.
Please note that this is a newbie advice:
I'd have a look at how the kernel reserves pages DMA usage (below 1M)

Regards,
Frederik Deweerdt

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