Re: mmap inside kernel memory.
Jerome de Vivie (jerome.devivie@free.fr)
Sun, 09 Feb 2003 14:43:31 +0100
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jerome de Vivie wrote:
>
> > Here, do_mmap check if the addresse match inside current process and
> > return me -ENOMEM. Are there others functions which i could use to
> > associate this file and a vmalloc'ed space ?
>
> As I said, you don't want to mmap a file in kernel memory.
> You only have 128 MB of vmalloc space and you don't want to
> waste it.
>
> If you know which addresses within the file you want to
> access, why don't you access them through the page cache
> functions ?
Ok. I will go through the page cache.
regards,
j.
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Jérôme de Vivie
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