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DateSun, 21 Mar 2004 15:12:25 +0100
FromManfred Spraul <>
SubjectRe: locking user space memory in kernel
Arjan wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:18, Eli Cohen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to be able to lock memory allocated in user space and passed to 
>> my driver, in order to pass it to a dma controller that can maintain a 
>> translation table for each process. The obvious thing is to use 
>
>the linux way is to do it the other way around, provide a device that
>userspace then can mmap......
>
That's definitively the preferred method, but unfortunately there are 
existing apis that are the other way around. I think the main MPI 
transfer functions must read/write to arbitrary addresses, I'm sure 
there are other examples.

--
    Manfred

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