Re: [PATCH?] Crash in 2.4.17/ptrace

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:15:28PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >Well, get_user_pages is used by several parts of the kernel.
> >In the O_DIRECT/map_user_kiobuf case, we could end up asking
> >the disk controller to perform busmastering against the video
> >PCI device, which will probably explode somewhere down the chain.
> 
> Well... not sure. I'd like this to be doable. I have worked
> on some high-end broadcast video stuffs in the past, and we
> did intensive use of direct bus master from the disk controller
> to the framebuffer linear aperture. Actually, we even controlled

you can do direct DMA to framebuffer on most sane hardware, yes.  But
the kiobuf structure on 2.4 doesn't allow that, it only works with valid
'page structures' not physical addresses. This is valid for both rawio
and O_DIRECT. The MM part is the same for both of course.

Andrea