On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:57:44 +0530, mind entropy said: > In the copy_from_user when the user passes the virtual address is > the address mapped in the kernel page tables? Actually, a large part of the reason for copy_from_user()'s existence is to deal with the possibility that the page is *not* mapped at the moment because it's been swapped out (at which point we need to schedule a read operation for whatever backing store the page had (filesystem, swap, or zero-page for a never-before-referenced page), wait for it to arrive, and then nail it down so it doesn't leave out from under us before we finish the copy from the page. And of course, it's even *more* fun when the copy crosses a page boundary, and one or both of the pages isn't resident.... > In the function there is > a source is a user virtual address(<3GB) and the destination is the Only for 32-bit kernels. x86_64 has a different memory layout.
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