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From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:48:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415ACB29.5000104@ammasso.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040929000325.A6758@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> get_user_pages locks the page in memory.  It doesn't do anything about ptes.

I don't understand the difference.  I thought a locked page is one that 
stays in memory (i.e. isn't swapped out) and whose physical address 
never changes.  Is that wrong?  All I need to do is keep a page in 
memory at the same physical address until I'm done with it.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@ammasso.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 22:40 Timur Tabi
2004-09-28 23:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 23:21   ` Dave Hansen
2004-09-29 14:46     ` Timur Tabi
2004-09-29 14:48   ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2004-09-29 15:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29  4:49 ` opening a file inside the kernel module Rakesh Jagota
2004-09-29  5:00   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-29  5:56     ` Rakesh Jagota
2004-09-29 15:52       ` Stuart MacDonald, linux-kernel-owner

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