Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:27:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:27:32 -0500 Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.44]:12932 "EHLO postfix3-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:27:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3E465B03.19AF64B9@free.fr> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 14:43:31 +0100 From: Jerome de Vivie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mmap inside kernel memory. References: <3E45A7C4.8F1EBDFA@free.fr> <3E45B3FF.E687EF48@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 29 Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jerome de Vivie wrote: > > > Here, do_mmap check if the addresse match inside current process and > > return me -ENOMEM. Are there others functions which i could use to > > associate this file and a vmalloc'ed space ? > > As I said, you don't want to mmap a file in kernel memory. > You only have 128 MB of vmalloc space and you don't want to > waste it. > > If you know which addresses within the file you want to > access, why don't you access them through the page cache > functions ? Ok. I will go through the page cache. regards, j. -- J?r?me de Vivie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/