Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 17:40:07 EST


On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> solution is really elegant. Excluding all the debug code and assertions
> I stick in there, the guts of via audio mmap support went from ~50 lines
> to ~10.

Was it 50 lines with remap_page_range?

Which is the advantage of introducing pagefaults that we can avoid? (and
that we are also used to avoid)

Andrea
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