kmap-kunmap

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Hi,
I saw there are following two lines in aops->readpage
method of most filesystems
 memset(kmap(page), 0,PAGE_SIZE);
 kunmap(page);
This is for th page is in high mem maps to the kernel
virtual addresses but kunmap is just a next statment
what
does this means?
Thanks
Prasanna




	
		
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