Re: Process VM Addr to Kernel VM Addr at Interrupt Time.

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:58:13 +0200


On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 06:25:29PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Suppose the page is shared by another process. You need to do page faulting
> and copy on write even if you use mlock and make sure all the pages are
> present.

Also these multiple mappings are going to make machines with virtual indexed
caches barf when implemented wrongly. Suggestion: KISS. Use a kernel
bounce buffer and escape the gadzillion of possible mm traps.

Ralf

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