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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:16:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Device driver port from 2.2 to 2.4
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I'm porting a device driver from 2.2 to 2.4 and have run across one
spot that I'm just not sure how to handle...  'Twould help if I new
either(or both) the driver or kernel internals better ;-}

It overrides the vm_operations_struct nopage function to share a trace
buffer between user and driver.

in the nopage function, there is this:
offset = address - vma->vm_start + vma->vm_offset;
newPtr = ( (void *)devExt->Trace + offset );
atomic_inc(&mem_map[ MAP_NR(newPtr) ].count ); // increment usage count

now, it looks like this might map to:
atomic_inc(virt_to_page(newPtr).count );

But I'd like to be sure I'm not missing something...  I already feel
like something is amiss in that I can't find any corresponding
decrements !!

-- 
Rick Nelson
Life'll kill ya                         -- Warren Zevon
Then you'll be dead                     -- Life'll kill ya

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