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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/