Struct UIO
Hiten Pandya
hmp at nxad.com
Wed Jul 30 21:56:45 PDT 2003
Craig Dooley wrote:
Theres a comment to change iov_base in struct iovec to a void * which would be
a pretty simple patch, just to cast it whenever doing math, but should it be
changed to be more forward thinking? What about systems like x86 with PAE
where a pointer cant address the whole memory space? I dont have the
FreeBSD sources on hand, but is it vm_offset_t? Is this not an issue right
now? Just a thought.
-Craig
For PAE, all physical address accesses are handled by u_int64_t
pointers, just like in FreeBSD, they will be called vm_paddr_t
and the kernel code will be modified to use it where
appropriate.
Cheers.
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