vmapbuf confusion

Chuck Tuffli ctuffli at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 09:37:02 PST 2006


On 2/16/06, Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     Device drivers need a stable KVA-mapped memory.  It only seems
>     to work with the pointer to user memory because the user memory
>     happened to be faulted in for the duration of the I/O and
>     because the I/O happened to occur in the context of the user process.
>     This isn't always going to be the case with a device write.

ok, that makes sense. thanks!






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