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SubjectRe: share buffer between user and kernel?
It was a dark and stormy night.  Suddenly "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> spoke:

> What is the currently approved method of sharing a buffer between
> user space and kernel space, so that I can avoid one or two
> copy_to/from_user?

Two basic choices here:

1) Allocate the buffer in kernel space and use the mmap() method to give the
user-space program access to it; and

2) Allocate the buffer in you user application program and use the KIOBUF method
to give the kernel and/or hardware access to your buffer. Look in
<linux/iobuf.h> for kernel-level inspiration.

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