Christoph Hellwig wrote:
get_user_pages locks the page in memory. It doesn't do anything about ptes.
I don't understand the difference. I thought a locked page is one that stays in memory (i.e. isn't swapped out) and whose physical address never changes. Is that wrong? All I need to do is keep a page in memory at the same physical address until I'm done with it.
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