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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 06:27 -0600, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> Can't do that in the "real" code I'm developing, so I guess I'll need to 
> use get_user_pages.  Hmmm . . . not quite as simple to use as 
> copy_from_user, and I don't see any doc on it.  But at least I've found 
> a couple examples in the kernel tree.

We can help you if you tell us more about the "real" code.

Ben.