On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > 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? Yes. But if you're walking ptes you're looking at virtual addresses somehow. Can you send me a pointer to your code please? I suspect it's doing something terribly stupid. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
