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Re: [PATCH] new interface: memory_object_get_proxy


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new interface: memory_object_get_proxy
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 20:36:14 +0100
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Sergey Bugaev, le lun. 01 nov. 2021 19:47:06 +0300, a ecrit:
> That, and also proxies actually don't support non-zero offset, but
> they do support non-zero 'start' (I don't know what the difference was
> supposed to be between the two).

offset is inside the original object, and start is in the proxy object.
Think for instance of /dev/mem, within which you could want to map some
VGA-compatible range at 0xA0000 (that's the start), but the mapping
range is a subpart of the memory of some device (that's the offset).

Samuel



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