Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6

Dave Hansen
2004-09-28T23:21:18Z

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> get_user_pages locks the page in memory. It doesn't do anything about ptes.

You probably want mlock(2) to keep the kernel from messing with the ptes
at all. But, you should probably really be thinking about why you're
accessing the page tables at all. I count *ONE* instance in drivers/
where page tables are accessed directly.

-- Dave