Subject: allocate virtual address space without physical
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/14/2005 00:13:07
Hi,
for Xen, I need to allocate some kernel virtual address space, into which I'll
map physical pages loaned by foreign domains for I/O. The management of these
pages will be done in the backend drivers, and so will bypass pmap(9).
It there a way to reserve some kernel virtual address space from UVM, but
without physical memory backing it ? I didn't find an obvious way to do this
in the uvm(9) man page.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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