Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > get_user_pages locks the page in memory.  It doesn't do anything about ptes.
> 
> I don't understand the difference.  I thought a locked page is one that 
> stays in memory (i.e. isn't swapped out) and whose physical address 
> never changes.  Is that wrong?

Yes.  But if you're walking ptes you're looking at virtual addresses
somehow.  Can you send me a pointer to your code please?  I suspect
it's doing something terribly stupid.

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