Re: Calling sys_mlock() from within a driver

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On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 20:58, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > A driver should not be making this call.  See the openib-general mailing
> > list archive for a detailed description on how a driver can avoid making
> > this call, for one such example of fixing a driver to not do this.
> 
> Are you talking about this post?
> 
> http://www.openib.org/openib-general/archive/2004/2004-06/1086841102674/index_html#1087312340342
> 
> I don't see a detailed description of a solution in the mailing list 
> archives.  I've been following the Inifiniband driver development, and 
> all I see are the same problems, but no solutions.  People say we need 
> to use get_user_pages(), but that function doesn't support overlapping 
> memory regions.

so... how about giving a lot more details about WHY and WHAT you are
trying to achieve.... maybe even an URL to a preliminary draft of your
code ??

You're asking questions without willing to give enough information to
even come up with a real answer so far...

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