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SubjectRe: Mapping from user VA to kernel VA...
Hello,

> I have a need to do the following.
>
> User process sends the his virtual address to kernel.
>
> Kernel locks memory down and now has the list of physical pages.
>
> What should i do so that i can get a kernel linear address, that maps to the
> same physical page?
>
> any help is greatly appreciated.
>

Stephen Tweedie's patch works fine if you use kiovecs. I'm working
on a patch that will do async and shared memory rw locking derived on that
set of patches but it's still a work-in-progress and has been for awhile...

--
Eric Lowe
FibreChannel Software Engineer, Systran Corporation
elowe@systran.com

"You can't spell failure without U-R-A." -Dispair.com



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