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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: temp. mem mappings
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:51:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93UtRC.A.gWG.8oSH7@dinero.interactivesi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010605194136.K26756@redhat.com>

** Reply to message from "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> on Tue, 5 Jun
2001 19:41:36 +0100


> > Allocate a virtual memory area using vmalloc and then save and modify the
> > pmd/pgd/pte to point to the physical memory you want.  To unmap, just undo the
> > previous steps.
> 
> ioremap() is there for exactly that purpose. 

True, except that you can't use ioremap on normal memory, which is what I
assumed he was trying to do.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-05 17:54 cohutta
2001-06-05 18:25 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-05 18:41   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-05 18:51     ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2001-06-05 18:59       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-05 20:42 cohutta
2001-06-05 20:59 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-05 22:27   ` Joseph A. Knapka
2001-06-06  8:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-06 21:14 cohutta
2001-06-07 10:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-08  1:38 cohutta
2001-06-08 17:02 ` Joseph A. Knapka
2001-06-08 18:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-06-08 21:22   ` Joseph A. Knapka
2001-06-11 16:32 cohutta
2001-06-25  6:52 ` Eric W. Biederman

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