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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: question on memory map cleanup stuff
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:57:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41744A50.3030700@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)

I've got a small feature that maps a page of kernel memory to userspace via a 
syscall, then uses that page for various things.

Currently, I'm marking the page reserved, then exporting it via 
remap_page_range().  This means that I need to clean up my mapping whenever the 
memory map is destroyed (process death, exec(), daemonize, etc.).

It appears that I should be able to put my cleanup code in exit_mmap().  Since 
the cleanup code calls do_munmap() on the address, I would want to call it 
before taking mm->page_table_lock, correct?

Also, normally I would hold mm->mmap_sem before calling do_munmap().  Would I 
still need this if I'm calling it from exit_mmap()?  Presumably nobody else can 
get at it anymore...

Thanks,

Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 22:57 Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-10-18 23:14 ` question on memory map cleanup stuff William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-18 23:39   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-19 18:19   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-19 18:24     ` William Lee Irwin III

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