Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space

From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:22:52 +0000

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:59PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:

Piece of code please. pci_alloc_consistent calls __get_free_pages, and there
should be no problem with mmaping this area.

That is an implementation detail which is not portable to other
architectures. Please don't encourage people to use non-portable
implementation details.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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