From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:41:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3acv93wx6.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2JOpu-1y1-21@gated-at.bofh.it> (Timur Tabi's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:20:14 +0200")
Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com> writes:
> 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.
After get_user_pages you don't need the page tables anymore.
The struct page *s returned by it can be used for DMA.
-Andi
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2004-09-29 15:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-28 22:40 get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6 Timur Tabi
2004-09-28 23:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 23:21 ` Dave Hansen
2004-09-29 14:46 ` Timur Tabi
2004-09-29 14:48 ` Timur Tabi
2004-09-29 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
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