Re: is make_pages_present() what I was looking for?
Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:29:20 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> if (make_pages_present(uaddr, uaddr + count))
> return -EFAULT;
> lock a spinlock
> while (walking linked list) {
> examine the data and, if needed __copy_to_user(uaddr, kaddr, size)
> }
> unlock a spinlock
I of course was assuming the process context and that there is sufficient
locking to prevent other CLONE_VM'd threads from "mucking about" with
current's mm.
Tigran.
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