On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:44:20 -0700, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>
said:
> anyone in the list has had requirement to pin user memory pages down
> in linux? i have had other ways in solaris/nt to do this. but have not
> known the right way to lock pages down under linux.
What for? From user space, mlock() fits the bill. If you want to pin
pages for a driver, either allocate the pages from kernel space and mmap
them into user space, or (in 2.3) the kiobuf mechanism can map and pin
an arbitrary range of user pages temporarily.
--Stephen
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