Re: mmap() for a cluster of pages

Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-10-30T19:18:33Z

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > My guess is simply that noone's encountered this bug before, but it's
> > > there.
> >
> > We should be OK. Alan will no doubt scream if I'm wrong here.
>
> It seems to be ok. All the bug reports in sound currently are quite
> different things

I was mistaken; all's well. The 2.0 code wraps this in a mem_map_reserve
which my eyes blindly skipped. Other code performing the same trick looks
right too (the bttv driver; the fb stuff looks like it has its buffers
outside of normal RAM).

-ben