Data space creation and physical memory allocation strategy.

[Julian Stecklina]

On 06/10/2011 03:48 PM, Norman Feske wrote:
>> Does anybody know whether Linux has a similar mechanism (i.e. reserve a
>> chunk of physical memory for a virtual memory region before the first
>> access to this region)? If not, what are the pros and cons of these two
>> strategies?
> 
> I am not aware of a Linux mechanism for reserving physical memory. But
> as Linux is used for real-time applications, I expect that there exists
> a mechanism.

I think mmap()+mlock() do exactly that.

Regards, Julian

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