16 Jan
2011
16 Jan
'11
9:24 a.m.
On 16.01.2011 03:08, Jason Philip wrote:
one more thing, what io-fpages are and what are them used for?
As I explained yesterday, flexpages (== fpages) are the internal data type that is used to describe regions of memory when establishing a mapping between two address spaces.
This was not the whole truth. As Adam already said, flexpages are not only used for memory mappings, but also for mapping other kinds of resources, such as capabilities (= the right to talk to a kernel object) and I/O ports. The latter is what io-fpages are for.
Bjoern