On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A highmem page can have buffers??? > > yep. Take a 4k page which is stored in four discontiguous 1k disk blocks. The > data at page_buffers(page) is the sole way in which we track which parts of > the page belong to which blocks of the disk.
But I see no use of kmap for buffer access? The data is not accessible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
