> to the driver which performs a map_user_kiobuf() on it, the resulting
> kiobuf
> structure has all of the pagelist[] physical address entries set to the
> same value
> and the maplist[] entries set to 0. The devices access to this memory
> now
> causes system problems.
> Is map_user_kiobuf() working correctly ?
Yes, it is. You have to lock down the pages for I/O with
lock_kiovec() before using the maplist. The locking will
also fault the pages if needed.
Gerd
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sigfault (core dumped)
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