From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:51:37 -0500 From: Timur Tabi In-Reply-To: <20010605194136.K26756@redhat.com> References: <3B568C0B@MailAndNews.com> ; from ttabi@interactivesi.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:25:27PM -0500 Subject: Re: temp. mem mappings Message-ID: <93UtRC.A.gWG.8oSH7@dinero.interactivesi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: ** Reply to message from "Stephen C. Tweedie" 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. -- Timur Tabi - ttabi@interactivesi.com Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/