Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: limit on number of kmapped pages | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 24 Jan 2001 07:27:05 -0700 |
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David Wragg <dpw@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:
> I'd still like to know what the basis for the current kmap limit > setting is.
Mostly at one point kmap_atomic was all there was. It was only the difficulty of implementing copy_from_user with kmap_atomic that convinced people we needed something more. So actually if we can kmap several megabyte at once the kmap limit is quite high.
Eric
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