Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:23:54 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> The way we expect get_user_pages() to be used is that the kernel will use > get_user_pages() once per application I/O request.
Are you saying that the mapping obtained by get_user_pages() is valid only within the context of the IOCtl call? That once the driver returns from the IOCtl, the mapping should no longer be used?
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