Subject: Re: Measuring memory to memory copy operations (+ interrupts, DMA)
To: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/22/2003 10:34:03 
> yeah -this turned out to be a bigger problem than I imagined.
> how does one pin dynamically allocated memory in libc (so that it could be 
> used by an interrupt handler)?

You can't, and shouldn't be trying to.

You MAY be able to do whatever you are trying to do by using mmap
(and writing an appropriate device driver).

	David

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