On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:06:30PM +0100, 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.
The pinning of user buffers is part of the reason we have kiobufs.
But why do you need to pass it to functions expecting kernel buffers?
--Stephen
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