Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Timur Tabi
2005-04-25T22:24:55Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

> The way we expect get_user_pages() to be used is that the kernel will use
> get_user_pages() once per application I/O request.

Are you saying that the mapping obtained by get_user_pages() is valid only within the
context of the IOCtl call? That once the driver returns from the IOCtl, the mapping
should no longer be used?

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