[openib-general] Reserved L_Key API
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Thu Sep 16 08:56:12 PDT 2004
Dror> Think of Tavor as a software friendly design. Use: start
Dror> address = 0x0000000000000001 length = 0xffffffffffffffff pa
Dror> = 1 And then you got all memory space mapped + protection
Dror> violation if you try to access a NULL pointer :)
That's cute :) But I think 0x0 is more likely to be a valid DMA
address than 0xffffffffffffffff (I seem to remember this coming up
when pci_dma_mapping_error() was added to the kernel).
- R.
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