Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:21:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > And anyways from a design standpoint it looks much better to really pin the > page in the pte too (just like kernel reserved pages are pinend after a > remap_page_range).
No.
Read my emails.
"Pinning" is stupid. There are no ifs, buts, or maybes about it.
Pinning will not happen.
(And remap_page_range() has nothing to do with pinning - they are just pages that cannot be swapped out because they are not normal pages at all).
Linus
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