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vmalloc alignment
by Mike Gibson June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011

In my limited testing, it seems that vmalloc gives memory that is page aligned. Is this always true? Mike Gibson

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memory management
by Venkateswarlu P June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011

how to understand the memory management code in linux any suggestions

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what should NIC do in order to support TSO?
by Gang Lei (雷刚) June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011

HI All: As the title. I saw someone mentioned that NIC should support S/G DMA, TCP checksum offload and auto insert IP header,TCP header. The S/G DMA is easy to understand since large mount of data can’t be allocated into one single page, but why it need hardware to auto insert TCP header? As I know, the TCP header should only exist in the first fragments, and it ‘s already in skb->data, for other fragments, it’s in skb->frags, hardware only need to insert IP header for them, so I don’t see such need to auto insert TCP header by Hardware. And another question about checksum offload is that, how can hardware support rx checksum verification if received packets are fragmented? Thanks for your answer in advance. Rick

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by Ashutosh Kumar Mishra June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011

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Not able to see all the symbols in the output of "nm" command
by Madhavi Manchala June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011

Dear All, I build the OpenWRT image for my target device. I am able to see the "vmlinux" image in trunk/build_dir/linux-s3c2510/linux-2.6.36 directory where linux-s3c2510 indicates my target device. I am NOT able to see some of the function names (symbols), which I developed, in the output of the "nm" command for vmlinux image. Am I missing any thing while building the image for getting all the symbols into the image? I am NOT able to see all the function names which are defined in arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/uncompress.h file. Please let me know if I am missing any thing. Thanks for your suggestions / hints. Thanks and Regards, Madhavi M.

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Calling function from address
by Micha M. June 9, 2011

June 9, 2011

Hi! Is it possible to call a function that is somewere in the physical-address space? So I'd like to jump to a certain physical address, execute the code there and then return to my kernel module. I already tried to ioremap that address and cast the new address to a funtion pointer and then call the function, but there where some page faults. Regards #micha -- /* To err is human; to really fuck things up requires the root password */

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Problems with hypercalls
by emilie lefebvre June 9, 2011

June 9, 2011

Hi all, I try to do hypercalls but I always have a kernel panic that I don't understand. I have Scentific Linux 6 installed on kvm and my computer has ubuntu. I try to modify the SL6 kernel to do hypercalls. I have a function in that kernel which check all syscalls in the VM. When I put the hypercall at the beginning of this function, it perfectly works, but when I try to put it in the middle of the function I have a kernel panic with this error: "divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP ... [<ffffffff813f8cdd>] panic+0x78/0x137 [<ffffffff813fcb94>] oops_end+0xe4/0x100 [<ffffffff8101021b>] die+0x5b/0x90 [<ffffffff813fc444>] do_trap+0xc4/0x160 [<ffffffff8100df2f>] do_divide_error+0x8f/0xb0 [<ffffffff811f974c>] ? my_function+0xdc/0xe70 " Could you have any suggestions ? With regards, Emilie

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Re: OS Books suggestion
by Ezequiel García June 9, 2011

June 9, 2011

I appreciate all the answers. But actually I was just looking for a review on the three books I asked for. Thanks anyway. Ezequiel.

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mmap on a block device
by Kaustubh Ashtekar June 7, 2011

June 7, 2011

Hello All, Is it possible to mmap on a block device? I am writing my own kernel space filesystem on Linux (academic project). I am writing a user space tool to format the block device (again my own ramdisk driver). It would be much simpler if I could just mmap the block device into my address space. -Kaustubh

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OS Books suggestion
by Ezequiel García June 7, 2011

June 7, 2011

I am looking for some biblographic material for OS learning (mostly for linux). I've read Linux Device Drivers, and I am interested in these: * The design of unix operating system (Bach) * Modern operative systems (Tanenbaum) * Operating Systems design and implementation(Tanenbaum) I haven't done formal Computer Science studies, and I don't the time to read the three of them, but as I am working very close to the linux kernel, I am trying to sharp my skills a little. All books seem very well rated, and the first one is a real classic. I would like to have further suggestions so I can decide myself better. Thanks. Ezequiel.

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