Physical memory allocation.

[Norman Feske]

Hi Daniel,

> For the purpose of NUMA based memory management, I would like to have
> Genode allow me to allocate physical memory at a specified address,
> i.e., support something like...
> 
> |||||||||virtual| ||Ram_dataspace_capability ||alloc||_at(|||size_t
> ||size|||, addr_t start_address, |||bool ||cached|| |=| true|)||| ||=| 0|;
> 
> I figure I can temporarily hack this by extending
> Ram_session_component::alloc and using Range_allocator::alloc_addr.
> 
> Is there any danger here?

no worries, that's just fine. :-)

> Can Genode be persuaded to extend the main line to support this?  An
> address range parameter instead of start address would be even better,
> i.e., try to allocate me some RAM somewhere between physical address X
> and Y.

Sure. To push it forward, please open a new topic at our issue tracker.
So we can take the discussion of the details there.

Best regards
Norman

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