Re: get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6

[Timur Tabi]

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?  All I need to do is keep a page in 
memory at the same physical address until I'm done with it.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
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