Re: chasing the four level page table

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 6 Jan 2005 20:38:27 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> You can't use get_user_pages in this case because the AGP aperture
> can be above mem_map.  If none of the callers take page_table_lock
> already you would need to add that too. I guess from the context the lock
> is not taken, but better double check.
> 
> Perhaps we should add a get_user_phys() or somesuch for this.

No where in DRM is page_table_lock being taken.  Also, no other device
driver takes page_table_lock either, so that probably implies that DRM
shouldn't start doing it to. Best solution would probably be add an mm
function for get_user_phys() that takes the lock internally. If you
add the function I'll convert DRM to use it.

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Jon Smirl
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