On 6 Oct 00 at 17:45, Atul Mukker. wrote:
> Hi,
> Can i use sys_mlock and sys_munlock in my driver module to lock/unlock the
> user address pages.
>
> Thanks
>
> P.S. Please mark your mail CC to atulm@ami.com
VMware's vmmon and in-kernel raw devices (and kiobufs) use simple
incrementing/decrementing page count - first cause pagein (vmmon uses
get_user(), kiobufs something more sophisticated), then use get_page
on that page. To release, use put_page().
But do not forget to look at my today's report about page->mapping == NULL...
If you'll do it with shared-mapped pages, and someone truncates file
they are mapped from, bad things can happen under 2.4.0 :-(
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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