Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261330AbVEaTRs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 15:17:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261228AbVEaTRs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 15:17:48 -0400 Received: from rrcs-24-227-247-8.sw.biz.rr.com ([24.227.247.8]:63929 "EHLO emachine.austin.ammasso.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261330AbVEaTRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 15:17:32 -0400 Message-ID: <429CB7CF.2000200@ammasso.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:15:27 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: Ammasso User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: get_user_pages() and process termination Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 16 If I call get_user_pages() on some pages owned by a process, and then the process exits, are the pages still pinned, or is there some kind of automatic cleanup? -- Timur Tabi Staff Software Engineer timur.tabi@ammasso.com One thing a Southern boy will never say is, "I don't think duct tape will fix it." -- Ed Smylie, NASA engineer for Apollo 13 - 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/