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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] don't use mlock() with Solaris tools

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] don't use mlock() with Solaris tools
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:16:38 +0100
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On 22/10/06 7:02 pm, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User john.levon@xxxxxxx
>> # Date 1161315500 25200
>> # Node ID ad404ee927926b8cc4a6498b180e78f0939eb2eb
>> # Parent  3685871c6f7930c7d35baea7cee4f51d00415796
>> on solaris: mlock requires a page aligned address and mlock doesn't ensure
>> the pages won't minor page fault; so don't use it on solaris.
> 
> This isn't in unstable yet; I don't know if it was missed or if there's
> some better way we could do this?
> 
> thanks,
> john

Don't worry, it's in my to-apply list. I don't do FIFO. :-)

 -- Keir



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