Re: kmap_kiobuf()

[Benjamin C.R. LaHaise]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> MM is not exactly my field - I just know I want to be able to lock down a 
> user's buffer and treat it as if it were in kernel-space, passing its 
> address to functions which expect kernel buffers.

Then pass in a kiovec (we're planning on adding a rw_kiovec file op!) and
use kmap/kmap_atomic on individual pages as required.  As to providing
larger kmaps, I have yet to be convinced that providing primatives for
dealing with objects larger than PAGE_SIZE is a Good Idea. 

		-ben