Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver

[Roland Dreier]

    Andrew> Someone left PG_private set on this page (!)

How does PG_private get set?  Could doing a > 1 page kmalloc set it
(because we end up with a compound page)?

    Andrew> You need to decide who "owns" these pages.  Once that's
    Andrew> decided, it tells you who should release them.

    [... really good guide to mapping pages into userspace snipped ...]

How about the case where one wants to map pages from
dma_alloc_coherent() into userspace?  It seems one should do
get_page() in .nopage, and then the driver can do dma_free_coherent()
when the vma is released.

Or maybe it's just simpler to use vm_insert_page() in the .mmap method
and not try to be fancy with .nopage?

 - R.
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