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Re: kernel VM area issue

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:16:19AM -0400, Fabrice Tchakountio wrote:
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> My name is Fabrice. I'm currently working on Linux 2.4.2 kernel which is
> part of Red-Hat 7.1 package. I'm hacking on the VM system of Linux.
> My question is:
> Given a kernel pointer ( pointer to a given kernel data structure),  how
> can we find the appropriate VM area instance? 
> 
> for a userland pointer , we can do:
>  
> 	u_vma=find_vma(current->mm, u_ptr)

Kernel pointers usually aren't represented by a vma .

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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