Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 Feb 2003 14:43:31 +0100 | From | Jerome de Vivie <> | Subject | Re: mmap inside kernel memory. |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jerome de Vivie wrote: > > > Here, do_mmap check if the addresse match inside current process and > > return me -ENOMEM. Are there others functions which i could use to > > associate this file and a vmalloc'ed space ? > > As I said, you don't want to mmap a file in kernel memory. > You only have 128 MB of vmalloc space and you don't want to > waste it. > > If you know which addresses within the file you want to > access, why don't you access them through the page cache > functions ?
Ok. I will go through the page cache.
regards,
j.
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