Hi, Can you send the complete dump of kernel panic? Its perfectly acceptable to read write even allocate and truncate the page as you are also part of kernel code.But while doing any of these things you should be very carefull. Prasanna --- Alok <wonder_years2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone ... > > I am having trouble while reading or writting > data > from skb data structure (used in Networking) > i.e. > when data is present in Pages. Paged data > information > is stored in skb_shared_info structure .which > consists > of . pointer to page structure , size and offset. > Whenever I try to read this data, kernel goes to > panic > state. I thought these pages might be locked or > sumthin ... but when i went through kernel code ... > there wasn't any mention of such locks (atleaset i > could not find one !). > > In the kernel code it was all logical .. reading > from page n all .. but when i tried the same code .. > kernel paniced. Can anyone please help me with this > ?? > . .how do i read this paged data ?? > > Alok > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
