Re: Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Monocrom Display

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 04:33, he...@ar... wrote:
> Hello Tony,
> 
> many, many thanks for your sugestions! __get_free_pages() and co works now.
> 
> The last added function was SetPageReserved(). I do not know about this funktion, find only in other FB drivers. So I will reading something about memory function in kernel and give all my functions the correct Arguments.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 

Yes, I forgot about that. The PG_reserved bit prevents the page from
being swapped out.  Also, remap_page_range() does not allow mapping
non-reserved pages, ie. when a user tries to mmap(), the OS will
pagefault it to a new page instead.

Tony