Subject: Re: kern/34010: undefined reference to `uvm_mremap' in LKM
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/17/2006 07:20:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/34010; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: martin@duskware.de
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/34010: undefined reference to `uvm_mremap' in LKM
compat_linux.o.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:15:06 +0900
> Both sounds fine to me - what is the API of that syscall? Is it sane
> (i.e. do we want to copy it 1:1)? Maybe we should move this to tech-kern
> though.
i haven't thought about api yet.
its only user i'm aware of is realloc, and our malloc is
very different from theirs.
i think it isn't straightforward to use mremap without switching to
mmap-based malloc.
YAMAMOTO Takashi