On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > get_user_pages locks the page in memory. It doesn't do anything about ptes. You probably want mlock(2) to keep the kernel from messing with the ptes at all. But, you should probably really be thinking about why you're accessing the page tables at all. I count *ONE* instance in drivers/ where page tables are accessed directly. -- Dave -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
