> I'm in the process of porting a driver to Linux. The author of the
> driver conveniently broke it into os-dependent and independent sections.
>
> One of the things in the "OS" dependent section is a routine to lock a
> section of memory presumably to be used for DMA.
>
> So, what I want to do is this: given a pointer to a previously
> kmalloc'ed block, and the length of that block, I want to (a) identify
> each page associated with the block and (b) lock each page. It appears
> that I can lock the page either by incrementing it's reference count, or
> by setting the PG_locked flag for the page.
>
> Which method is preferred? Is there another method I should be using
> instead?
Linux has seperate functionality for DMA transfers so you don't neccesarily
have to do all that. If you're _certain_ that the memory is going to be used
for DMA, then have a look at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch13.html and
scroll down to the part that talks about DMA. In fact, if you're fairly new to
Linux drivers then I would suggest that you take a look at
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html.
-- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
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