Re: copy_to/from_use query?

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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 Jan Hudec wrote : 
>No, you can't. The user-space memory is not directly addressable from 
>kernel. 
 
Actually what I think is the user-space memory is accessible, but as it's swappable, 
so at the time of access fault may occur if the required page is not there, Because 
kernel assumes that page is there... 
 
Thanks. 
Sumit Sharma, 
IBM, Bangalore. 

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