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Subjectquestion on char driver mmap

I have a need for a device driver to map a page of memory between interrupt
handlers and userspace. It's been suggested that I use something like the
following code (simplified):


unsigned long mypage;

int my_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long offset = vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;

if (offset & ~PAGE_MASK)
return -ENXIO;

mypage = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
SetPageReserved(virt_to_page(mypage));
remap_page_range(vma->vm_start, virt_to_phys((void *) mypage),
PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_page_prot);
return 0;
}


This seems to work. If I do this, however, do I need to hook into the munmap()
file operations to handle unmapping, clearing the reserved bit, and freeing the
page, or will the memory subsystem do it for me?

Thanks,

Chris
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