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SubjectRe: Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver)
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Anyway, zap_page_range() would do what you want, but it's not exported,
> and I'm not convinced it's even something we want to export. You can only
> zap a page range from within the context of the zappee, not from an
> external module/driver.
>
> [ Maybe it works if somebody else calls it, maybe it doesn't. I wouldn't
> bet on it, and more importantly, I can pretty much _guarantee_ that a
> driver will get the "struct mm_struct" reference counting wrong. ]

But vmtruncate or unmap_mapping_range is quite used to operating on
whatever mm's have mapped the file, so should be a safe route. Except
here it's a device mapped VM_PFNMAP, so there might prove to be some
gotchas. I'd be happy to make a nopage fault on VM_PFNMAP give SIGBUS,
for sensible behaviour after the "truncate" - but recent history warns
we're liable then to discover some app expecting otherwise ;)

Hugh
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