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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Melkor Ainur <melkorainur@yahoo.com>
Subject: user space virtual address to a vm_area_struct
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Hi,

Is there a recommended way for a driver to take an
application provided virtual address while executing
in the syscall context of that same application and
find the corresponding vm_area_struct (if exists for
that address) that spans that virtual address?

Melkor

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