Hi Christoph - I'm totally new to the Linux VM system. So how can we retrieve the pointer to the appropriate kernel physical pages, the kernel VM addres ? Thanks for your prompt reply Fabrice On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:16:19AM -0400, Fabrice Tchakountio wrote: > > > > Hi all - > > > > My name is Fabrice. I'm currently working on Linux 2.4.2 kernel which is > > part of Red-Hat 7.1 package. I'm hacking on the VM system of Linux. > > My question is: > > Given a kernel pointer ( pointer to a given kernel data structure), how > > can we find the appropriate VM area instance? > > > > for a userland pointer , we can do: > > > > u_vma=find_vma(current->mm, u_ptr) > > Kernel pointers usually aren't represented by a vma . > > Christoph > > -- > Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. > - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
