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SubjectRe: locking user memory and kiobuf

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > 1. From what I've read in the archives, it seems that locking user
> > memory from a driver isn't supported in current releases of the Linux
> > kernel (2.2.xx). Is that correct?
>
> it can be done, but is rather quirky.

Any suggestions on how it can be done?
I intend to use map_user_kiobuf for the 2.3.xx kernel releases, but, for the
moment, I would like to have a (temporary) way of doing this in 2.2.xx
(without kiobuf).
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Juan Gonzalez


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