Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263635AbUCULfO (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:35:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263636AbUCULfO (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:35:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42400 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263635AbUCULfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:35:08 -0500 Subject: Re: locking user space memory in kernel From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Eli Cohen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <405D7A0A.2000408@mellanox.co.il> References: <405D7A0A.2000408@mellanox.co.il> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-c27JKOSJFxH/ThMtQ8o1" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1079868902.5295.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:35:02 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 34 --=-c27JKOSJFxH/ThMtQ8o1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:18, Eli Cohen wrote: > Hi, > I need to be able to lock memory allocated in user space and passed to=20 > my driver, in order to pass it to a dma controller that can maintain a=20 > translation table for each process. The obvious thing is to use=20 the linux way is to do it the other way around, provide a device that userspace then can mmap...... --=-c27JKOSJFxH/ThMtQ8o1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAXX3mxULwo51rQBIRAjOmAJ9CLfbHNC/8KOpT9PSVLKGY0jNuQwCeOIDj QeqF3WwPv8QbKwQwaAfc138= =DJkx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-c27JKOSJFxH/ThMtQ8o1-- - 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/