Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6

Timur Tabi
2004-09-29T14:48:09Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> get_user_pages locks the page in memory. It doesn't do anything about ptes.

I don't understand the difference. I thought a locked page is one that
stays in memory (i.e. isn't swapped out) and whose physical address
never changes. Is that wrong? All I need to do is keep a page in
memory at the same physical address until I'm done with it.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@ammasso.com