Re: VM: Bizzare MM tricks...

Karim Yaghmour (karym@opersys.com)
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 00:17:27 -0400

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> what's wrong with remap_page_range? that's traditionally how mmap of
> arbitrary kernel space is done in char drivers and such. and single
> remap_page_range is typically called once per page, there should be no
> problem at all mapping discontiguous memory into a contiguous userland
> virtual address space...

I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago on the mailing list but never got
an answer. remap_page_range will _NOT_ work if you try to map pages allocated by
__get_free_pages onto user space. You _NEED_ to use the PG_reserved bit.
Otherwise remap_page_range fails. Ashok is right on this one. Once the
PG_reserved bit is set though, remap_page_range will work fine.

Karim

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Karim Yaghmour
karym@opersys.com
Operating System Consultant
(Linux kernel, real-time and distributed systems)
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