Re: [PATCH] zero^H^H^H^Hsingle copy pipe

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 16:48:08 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The main problem is that map_user_kiobuf() locks pages into memory.
> > It's a bad idea for pipes. Either we must severely limit the maximum
>
> You only have to map them for the actual copy.

The current map_user_kiobuf() doesn't have an 'mm' parameter, I can only
use it from the context of the writer.
I could use map_user_kiobuf_mm(), but the kiobuf structure is far too
large, I really don't want a huge structure (> 8 kB?) for a simple 4 kB
single copy transfer.
Including a memset(,0,sizeof(*iobuf) in kiobuf_init().

I think reusing the ptrace interface (access_process_vm()) is the better
solution.

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	Manfred
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