Re: Getting the data address of a page

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IMHO kmap_atomic() do not sleep or does not hold spin lock. its atomic version of kmap(). CMIIW

Thanks,
Mahaveer


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!

Do I need to use kmap() to get the address of a page I got using for example find_get_page, or page_address() is enough?

What, in this context, does kmap_atomic()?

Thanks


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