Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

[faith]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 you write:
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>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>> I stole the last two lines from drivers/char/drm/vm.c, which might need
>> to be fixed up also..  He uses the vm_flags above and nevers calls
>> get_page, at the very least.
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>The DRM code does
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>       atomic_inc(&virt_to_page(physical)->count);
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>which is basically what get_page() expands into. The DRM code looks ugly,
>but correct, at least as far as this thing is concerned.
>
>But you're right about the mmap vm_flags/vm_file things.

We'll look at this and submit the changes with the next patch set.
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