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From: "Vedang - 1337 u|33r h4x0r" <ved.manerikar@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: get_vm_area WITHOUT alloc_pages
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:50:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce9e96720802070020y3b7783c0we007f0651629228b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Can I use get_vm_area() to ONLY allocate virtual memory without
calling alloc_pages later? I have the physical address of a page with
me, and I'm going to make a manual entry in the PTE. Will the above
approach have any uncalled for consequences?

I am hacking the paging mechanism, to understand the working, and I
wish to map a physical page to two different virtual addresses without
using standard kernel functions.
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Cheers,
Vedang.

B.E. Computer Engineering,
P.I.C.T Pune.
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