> Suppose the page is shared by another process. You need to do page faulting
> and copy on write even if you use mlock and make sure all the pages are
> present.
Also these multiple mappings are going to make machines with virtual indexed
caches barf when implemented wrongly. Suggestion: KISS. Use a kernel
bounce buffer and escape the gadzillion of possible mm traps.
Ralf
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