Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:12:38 -0400 | From | faith@valinux ... | Subject | Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010191540350.1577-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>, you write: > > >On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> 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. > >The DRM code does > > atomic_inc(&virt_to_page(physical)->count); > >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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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