user space virtual address to a vm_area_struct

From: Melkor Ainur (melkorainur@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 04:10:11 EST


Hi,

Is there a recommended way for a driver to take an
application provided virtual address while executing
in the syscall context of that same application and
find the corresponding vm_area_struct (if exists for
that address) that spans that virtual address?

Melkor

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