From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mmap-ing __get_free_pages(), order > 0
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:02:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFB3566.A74C7A14@torque.net> (raw)
I'm trying to mmap a scatter gather list to the user space.
[The scatter gather list has the same lifetime as a
file descriptor to a device.] Each element of the scatter
gather list is obtained from __get_free_pages()
[typically order == 3].
In LDD2, Rubini & Corbett limit their "scullp" driver
example to order 0. There is a bit of arm waving in
the text (page 392) about some manipulation of page
counts being required when the order is > 0.
Could someone please elaborate what the rules are
(for the "nopage" callback)?
[The DEBUG_LRU_PAGE() at line 206 of page_alloc.c
disapproves of my attempts to date.]
Is there any driver out there that solves this
particular problem?
Doug Gilbert
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