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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:03:46 -0800
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Byunghyun Oh <octphial@postech.ac.kr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Replacement for get_user_pages() of Linux
Message-ID:  <20030224100346.GA6374@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030223163746.A19421@shell.postech.ac.kr>
References:  <20030223163746.A19421@shell.postech.ac.kr>

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Thus spake Byunghyun Oh <octphial@postech.ac.kr>:
> I'm porting Plex86 x86 VM, which uses get_user_pages() function at
> Linux-version kernel module to find and pin physical pages of memory
> in user space (according to its documentation). I tried many
> candidates as its replacement (PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() macro in vm/vm_page.h
> seems most useful now), but they haven't worked at all.
> 
> Any experience about porting VM-related things in Linux will be
> appreciated. :)

Glancing at the Linux source, it looks like you want vm_map_wire().
BTW, in the future, it helps if you can describe what you're
looking for, since we're not all Linux experts.

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