Re: Reading page from given block device

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Wed, 08 May 2002 14:30:36 -0700

Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> ..
> > memcpy(buf, bh->b_data, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> You'll need to kmap bh->b_page before copying the data.

No you won't. blockdev mappings don't use highmem.

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