Re: struct page question

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Sep 24 2002, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> Is it possible to build a struct page *page, where
> page_address(page) == some virtual address (not high mem of course)?
> 
> The reason I want to do this is so that I can pass it to
> generic_make_request(), having only a pointer to a buffer
> and size to a buffer, and the fact that not all devices
> have request_fn() exposed (e.g. md).
> 
> Apparently I cannot just set b_data and b_size, b_page
> also has to be set and it also seems that it will
> not work if page_address(b_page) != b_data...

bh->b_page = virt_to_page(va);
bh->b_data = va;

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Jens Axboe